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About once or twice a year friends-Mil Bike collectors get together for a vintage Mil bike ride... We ride a tour of about 25Mls, usually inspired by a WW2 theme... Last Saturday, April 20th 2024 we did a tour in the Dutch region where in early 1945 Operation Blackcock took place...

Here you go Source: https://lend-lease.net/files/Part_3B_pages_1-27.pdf

Great photo... Need to relocate the bell on mine... ;-)

I believe the McCauley chain guards with front brackets that can be mounted in different positions like the one you have obtained to be made for the civilianmarket allowing it to be used on different size and models of frames. On the McCauley guard that was mounted on my 1943 MG which was found...

Getting back to the NOS Persons Saddle Frames from the crates several years ago... here's one of them... WW2 manufacture, repacked in the 1950s...

The saddle on the Women's model is quite similar albeit a tad smaller..

More photos from saddles before and after restoration

Here's a photo of the saddle on my 1942 Huffman during restoration. Some early Huffmans came with a Messinger saddle, this one was fitted with a Persons. As described above the saddle pan is composed of two metal plates squeezing the padding and leather in between... The seat post clamp is quite...

No sorry, all of my spares go towards maintaining and restoring my original G519s Plus shipping to the US would kill the deal anyway

Since above is talk about the Persons Tool Bags... Here's an unissued example with tools from my collection The pump in the photo is a reproduction, there are photos of my original in another topic here...

These are NOS seat frames from those crates from years ago...

There were crates of NOS seat frames, not pans. I think Al Berger got them

Yes, the Columbia front fenders had a slight ducktail, the Huffman fenders did not 1942 Huffman

Thanks, here's a full view of the bike taken during a WW2 Military bike ride last October The front fender is the original factory one, the rear was replaced by one from those 1950s repacked ones

In the unit's motorpool This marking was on the bike before I restored it, so I put it back...

Original 1943 take-off rear fender laying on top of one of those NOS repacked fenders Identical...

Adrian, I used one of those NOS repacked in 1958 G519 rear fenders to replace the rotted original example on my 1943 MG138969 and it is prefectly identical. The rear guards mounted on the Huffmans however do have the braces lower near to the horizontal line... Plus the braces are a different...

Pump available here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/122615912392?mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&customid=link&campid=5335809022&toolid=20001&mkevt=1

From the manual, pump mounted on M306

On my Men's MG, I've had a repro pump from the late Ken Boice of Historic Reproductions for about 20 years... Here's how that repro compares to the original pump

OK, finally came around to doing that https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/ww2-us-army-bicycle-tire-pump-reproduction-vs-original.237047/

Not wanting to mount my beat-up original Military tire pump on my rides, and wanting to have a working pump in case of, I got one of the pumps offered on eBay from a French dealer and pimped it a bit to look convincing. The pumps are chromed, but some sand-blasting and a coat of olive drab took...

I believe Al Berger has stopped the Bergerwerke business

Nice ones, good luck on your sales…

Bike is now being offered for sale for 1500USd too good to be true??

This one was just posted on the Military Bicycles Facebook page... MG144110

Great bike! I live close to Bruges… One of these days I need to ride my G519 to the church where the Madonna statue is kept to this day…

FWIW the wood blocks on my original finish 1943 MG138969 which was found in Europe after WW2 were not painted. These are the blocks Al Berger patterned his excellent repro blocks on

Looks original and an extremely rare find… the rarest of the WW2 US Army bicycles… you may want to compare parts with mine, which I restored a couple of years ago… https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/womens-westfield-columbia-army-bicycle.66061/

Hi Adrian This one just sold in the UK and is going into a Belgian based collection MF17493-M-Curved-H12-N/K but most likely Morrow-N/K-Coffin

Very nice bike, Ken!

Here you go... Slightly different in length, especially the handle, diameter is about the same..

I can put up a side by side comparison of an original pump and a presta shown above when I get back home next week

WW2 Ad

Read more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_army_bicycle

Standard Swiss Army bicycle made between approx 1908 and 1988 I believe around 6800 were made by different companies, most common was Condor Replaced by a modern MTB like model after that.. Many were sold off in the 1990s and ended up all over the world

Thanks, here is a better and full view of my MG138969, restored but all original came from the Huertgen Forest region, Germany, roughly 20 years ago

Hi Adrian, I see this one is still missing from your list... MG158655 Most likely K8 I spotted it back in June 2015 in front of a souvenir shop in Arromanches, Normandy. Heavily modified/butchered but still an original frame and some parts... Don't know where it went afterwards...

Too bad you didn't get the Women's Army Columbia Craig had along with this Huffman... Wonder where that went...

It is definitely not the only survivor… There are dozens of all original BSA folding models in Europe including several twin tubes… Most came out of Denmark late 1999

Yes, it was on the bike when I found it. Not the only Army Huffman I know with one plus, I never managed to get it out and didnt want to damage the post or frame

Rode the Huffman thru the Danger Zone this weekend… 😎

My lovely wife of 26 years Kristien riding her 1943 US Army women’s bicycle…

Nice, I like threesomes… 1942 original paint Huffman, and both men’s and women‘s 1943 Columbias…

In 1975 a French Normandy based farmer, Seraphin FRANCOIS, donated the WW2 era US Army G519 Columbia MG145375 bicycle to the Airborne Museum in Sainte Mere Eglise where it has been on display ever since. Over the years it was restored and except maybe for the tires it doesn't look half bad...

The seat post is mounted backwards, upper tube should point forward color, grips etc all suggest it is one of the Irish Armed Forces model of which many were sold roughly 10-15 years ago…

I saw this bike for sale on facebook last weekend and have seena photo of the frame number. I believe it is most likely MG10854....Even if it is 16854 that would make it the earliest curved tube MG known. The headbadge is most likely repro or at least post WW2 and seems to be glued to the frame...

Brought this photo home today.... Me and my 1942 original paint Army Huffman bike Over 6' wide, photo was taken and used for an outdoor exhibition on collectors... Now takes pride in place in my War Building...

Huffman made mechanics' oil cans... (from my collection)

Here's another photo showing US Army WACs in Britain with similar British made bikes