Interesting wood wheels found

Friend of ours found these 2 sets recently, one looks like a 28" , just over an inch wide I think, with no holes drilled for spokes-? Would these have been stock for a factory/store and just never got drilled out?

2nd set is a nice original finish set stamped Lobdell, a bit smaller diameter than the other set so must be for 26", look like around 1" wide, stamped Schwinn on the hubs, rear is a fixie, what would these have been for? Send a PM if you have any info or interest.

Thx,
Darcie/Nick

kool, undrilled originals!

Those rims are for the "spoke less wheels" on some of those early bikes! Ha-Ha ~ Cool find.....

Those undrilled ones may have been on the ends of a crate of drilled ones, serving as the end caps. Who knows?

Those are actually early hulla-hoops.........

racing shops with an eye on the $$ bought un drilled rims and thread-less spokes ---and they drilled the rims ( indexing machine- 24, 32,36 40 spoke hole) Pop's in Newark NJ was a shop like that they also built working frames for racers nothing fancy but the real thing

bikejunk said:

racing shops with an eye on the $$ bought un drilled rims and thread-less spokes ---and they drilled the rims ( indexing machine- 24, 32,36 40 spoke hole) Pop's in Newark NJ was a shop like that they also built working frames for racers nothing fancy but the real thing

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Interesting that you mention racing, the place these came from has racing TOC and teens bikes, good call.

Darcie