Drosentreter
I live for the CABE
Well, I am finally getting somewhere on this bike, and I’ll give a short introduction as to how I got it, where I’m at now, and where I’m headed.
It started with finding the bikes at a local historical society that I’ve been roaming since I was born, but with no knowledge these existed in the attic of one of the barns, but alas someone drug them out and I got to see them after they decided to reconsider their price upon further research. They had them appraised by a guy in Cali that the American Pickers turned them onto, and he was terribly unrealistic, and didn’t even know what the Western Wheel Works bike was. He instead tried to ID it as a Mead girls bike knowing full and well that the person calling him wouldn’t know the difference. I finally convinced the historical society that the appraiser didn’t know what the Western Wheel Works bike was by showing them an original advertisement provided by a helpful member here on the cabe.
After weeks of waiting they finally had a discussion about an offer I had made for nearly all I could afford on the two of them, and determined they would like more and that I can’t sell the bicycles out of my collection for profit. Given this condition and the higher price I was hesitant, but ultimately decided I would regret passing them up. So here I am with an 1892/1893 Western Wheel Works Boys Junior, and a 1915ish Mead Crusader.
It started with finding the bikes at a local historical society that I’ve been roaming since I was born, but with no knowledge these existed in the attic of one of the barns, but alas someone drug them out and I got to see them after they decided to reconsider their price upon further research. They had them appraised by a guy in Cali that the American Pickers turned them onto, and he was terribly unrealistic, and didn’t even know what the Western Wheel Works bike was. He instead tried to ID it as a Mead girls bike knowing full and well that the person calling him wouldn’t know the difference. I finally convinced the historical society that the appraiser didn’t know what the Western Wheel Works bike was by showing them an original advertisement provided by a helpful member here on the cabe.
After weeks of waiting they finally had a discussion about an offer I had made for nearly all I could afford on the two of them, and determined they would like more and that I can’t sell the bicycles out of my collection for profit. Given this condition and the higher price I was hesitant, but ultimately decided I would regret passing them up. So here I am with an 1892/1893 Western Wheel Works Boys Junior, and a 1915ish Mead Crusader.
. So I got them removed, and made myself some tensioners out of 1/4,20 bolts. I plan on cutting down the bolt heads into a square sometime down the road but the hex head is fine for now. Now, those should be it for the repairs(I hope).
. Seriously though I don’t want to break anything so any help is appreciated.
. 27” off of a 1975 Continental. The color is Rustoleum Satin Nutmeg. It’s what I had on hand and it was close enough for a base color. 
