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Looks to me like the juvenile frame/19 inch Hercules Model F sports tourst. The Model F could be bought black with black mudguards, or with white mudguards if you liked a two-tone look. The whites were popular in England, not sure if they were less so in the US. It was sold with your choice of...
I will add one more thing about the "serious cyclist" snobbery I mentioned earlier.
The bitterest thing about the snobbery of the 70s and early 80s was that the attitude ignored Schwinn's contribution to adult cycling going back to the late 1930s.
For years, Schwinn was one of the few (and at...
Could be a registration number and not a year, just a coincidence that it happens to look like a year. The sticker looks like 1960s era reflective plastic.
The brakes work, just not well compared to a modern bike. The rod brake roadster like the Raleigh DL-1 is the equivalent of a Model T Ford (the technology is largely from the same era) and its contemporaries.
They have brakes of a sort (the Model T had a transmission brake or the Rocky Mountain...
Thank you for posting the larger pictures here. Craigslist is kind of "low-tech" still. In the last one, I zoomed in as much as I could and it looks like the lamp bracket is a bird head type of some kind. The old-style bird is a possibility, but should be checked that it is not a later type...
The photographs don't help much. Some are at weird angles and others are too close to tell what this is exactly. Overall, it's an interesting looking bike but it would have to be seen in person to get the full story.
I do note that the badge looks 1950s to me, and potentially glued on. Many of...
Not sure. Maybe confusion he took from the "Wartime" title in the discussion thread. It started out about war era bikes but ultimately became about all New Worlds. It's a pre-war bike as far as US timeline is concerned.
This 1940 New World was discussed here:
https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/wartime-schwinn-new-world-bikes-we-know-you-have-them-tell-us-about-them.151709/page-91
Serial number and "0" dated AW hub incidate a 1940 bike.
I take their point about brake lever force, but more it is to have the hand with better fine manipulation (usually the dominant one but not always) on the front lever because you want max control over the front wheel on slippery or loose surfaces where you risk a front wheel skid. The article...
My thought is the calipers were swapped on the red bike. A good set of alloy calipers are lighter and alloy for better adjustment usually than the standard steel side pulls of that era. It would have been a good upgrade.
A bit different thing but Raleigh Sports was very late to the game for...
I prefer the front brake to the non-drive/left side lever (American routing). I like the more sensitive (and important) front brake in dominant hand, and I am left-handed. It also helps if you are doing more shifting with the right hand, as your remaining hand on the bars goes to the front brake.
The bars I have are about 21-22 inches wide. I think you may be right that they are bars for lightweights. They don't seem to match what would be on a middleweight.
I've got a number of parts for rebuilding front hubs on-hand, including a box of 3203 cups (Made in W. Germany by Union). I have a few axles around and I refurbished a couple dozen cones.
I pulled a couple of shells out last weekend and found 3203 will fit the Union-made "Approved" hub with...
Late 1940s to mid 1950s. The Indian was a re-badged, basic Phillips light roadster. The bikes were initially tested in the NY/NJ area on a limited basis and then expanded to the wider market. The bikes were relatively inexpensive to source due to Britain being sales/export driven due to war...
The market for mid-grade and lower road bikes has been in decline. An aging demographic, glut of supply, and rise of e-bikes has lowered prices. There is still a market for good, original, higher-end vintage road bikes. But mid-market and down is soft and has been in decline for awhile now...
I've never seen one in person, only in that one simple ad on paper. Was a diagram ever made public for this hub?
This was in the period when Sturmey Archer was plagued by the SW hub on one side and repeated revisions to the TCW tri-coaster on the other. I can see they were aiming in the ad...
Yes, I got them because they looked like Traveler bars. They came with a tag on them that said they were for Jaguar, which was confusing to me, and then on top of that the pinched bends at the front. At first I cast them off to the parts bin as maybe being damaged, but it was weird that they...
Here are the handle bars from my basement that have an oval pattern around the bends. Both sides have oval/pinch bends. They're kind of like a north road bar but with longer straight sections. They allegedly came off a 1950s Jaguar. I initially thought they might be damaged,but perhaps they are...
The long levers with the patent number go up through 1948. The initial patent was filed in 1937; introduction announced in early 1938; first available as a patent pending lever in spring 1938. Patent 498820 granted January 1939. I think you could classify your shifter as a 1930s and 1940s style...
That shifter dates to the 1940s-50s era. Quadrants continued to be made into the 1950s. Raleigh and related brands started moving away from the quadrant before WWII, but the change over was gradual. The quadrant remained an option if you wanted one into the 1950s. The 1954 Sturmey Archer catalog...
It's not a 1957 bike. It's a 1980s era Schwinn-branded bike made abroad. I'd be optimistic and start it out at $100, keeping in mind you might never get there. If it sits, gradually lower the price from there. Nice color on that one.
The catalog refers to the brown as "coffee". At some point, "root beer" became a popular term for the color in the US even if the catalog was using "coffee". I guess we drink more root beer here than they do in England, or perhaps we put more milk in our coffee.
It's an interesting and nice set of bikes. Although popular in the 1960s in the US, by the time of the bike boom in the early 1970s, the 3 speed was passé and the 10-speed was in. But 3 speed bikes have always had collectors and people who favor them. It looks like you found someone who had a...
Next dented pump I get, I'm going to try the ice and see how it goes. The wooden mandrel works well enough, but it takes a fair amount of time to work the metal and get all the little dents out individually.
That should cover it, I would think.
I've found damage to the contents to be completely random. The ground-down bell crank was a ship between Connecticut and Virginia (not that far). I've had bikes take less damage coming from the west coast (a long way). I've had boxes that look reasonably...
Nice bike. The gold Sports was only made for a few years. Ironically is more of a "budget" offering compared to some of the other Sports models, but is today more collectible because of the color and short run.
-These often game with marginal saddles made of white vinyl. I would opt for an...
The RSW fork was known as the "tubular crown, trapped end", fork/part #195. I can't think of another model from that time that used those end pieces, but they were available from the factory if you wanted to customize your fork with them. The standard thimble insert was part RAD-117 (concave)...
Some kind of axle padding is indeed needed, and part of the basic standard of packaging. The plastic end caps aren't bad, but you can make your own from packing foam or extra pieces of cardboard. Sometimes even those are not enough and the axles still punch through, especially if the box is...
The RSW with 16 inch wheel and folding frame was known as the RSW "Compact". I don't know how many RSWs sold the first two years. The quote given [in Tony Hadland's excellent book on Raleigh] is that over a 9-year or so run, over 100,000 RSWs of all sorts were sold.
The original RSW prototype...
There is a 1940s era catalog in Deal or No Deal right now (not mine). What interested me is what appears to be a rare ad for the early-style Continental on the last page before the Index.
(Ad here...
Post-war pedal lot for Schwinn bikes. One set Union, one set large cap bow, and some large cap bow parts. Need cleaning and rebuild. Reduced to $50 shipped in the lower 48 states for everything.
Could also have been a penny-pinching thing, get by with the I and the O for awhile and not even bother to pay for a "D" until you buy a new set of stamps.
That is true of certain pre-war typewriters with certain symbols. I have a Royal Model 10 that does not have a "1" key (the number bank...
Looking at your chart, it fits in with a series of short format hand stamp numbers in the D-series from 1940. Later in the D-series, there are longer numbers and machine-stamped numbers. I guess they changed formats and stamps during 1940 and the D-series.
Here is one from Facebook which is a little different. Serial number allegedly is D7306 looks to be hand-stamped. No seam in bottom bracket shell. Standard size men's frame, regular pre-war type drops. Unusual Lexington badge. Still has its old saddle. Pre-war type Sturmey Archer three speed...
My parents had an '84 Country Squire wagon, same color, same fake wood, same Lincoln wheel kit upgrade. The interior of theirs was brown naugahyde instead of creme. My mother hated the vehicle and called it "the aircraft carrier". After about 5-6 years, they traded it in for a Volvo turbo...
Oh, it's much easier to buy a project than to actually refurbish it. I'm fairly diligent at keeping on top of the "to do" pile, but it still seems like I am always one or two behind. I'm still catching up to the two projects I got last fall. And then there is selling bikes to keep the number...
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