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Great garbage rescue! Those are the best! Check out a Lindbergh model catalog from the 60s and the box art will probably show a race car model with number 32. Might have been the number for a famous driver that the original owner idolized. 😁

Great looking bikes! This 47 Schwinn step through was a plain Jane after I striped 3 coats of spray paint off it. But with whats left of the original paint and some white tires I scavenged she makes a great cruiser. Iv'e ridden multiple blocks without touching the handlebars, tracks so smooth...

The paint and chrome should clean up pretty well. Look at the threads on removing rust from paint and chrome parts. Most of the paint looks sound enough to clean, polish with and finish with a good quality car wax like Maquires or Mothers cleaner/carnuba wax. It'll give that blue paint a nice...

Location and format of the serial number can go a long way to determine who manufactured the frame and sometimes when. it was very common for hardware stores, department stores, etc. to buy bikes form various manufacturers and have their own in house headbadge made. Finding Belknap Hardware...

That will clean up very nice. Looks like someone added some patriotic stripes and extra white for night time visibility. Wonder if this bike came over from England after the war or was it always here in the states? If only it could tell us it's story...

We like lots of photos!😁 Can you post some shots of the whole bike and closeups of forks, frame joints and bottom bracket?

Cold Friday morning ride with the Critical Mess M-W-F group on the 58 American.

So sad to hear this. A man who loved being outdoors, bikes, music, bet he liked dogs too. Sounds like my kinda friend. Lost so many importan ones in the lat 5 years or so and yet you never know when your going to find another like minded buddy. Hope he's riding endless bridges in the sun. A...

Photo location says taken near Pullman Company shops near Richmond California. Glass plate negative in Black and white and colorized. "The photo likely dates to 1910, about the time that construction workers completed the new nearby Pullman Company repair shops. Next door, land speculators...

Looks like there may be a lot of original paint hiding under there. Fingers crossed! Could be a distaff side of this one.

Might as well put this 1916 Mead Ranger Truss frame from Craigslist on here for future reference.

Nice looking arch bar with some great original tires and grips plus documentation. https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/bik/d/vallejo-1916-mead-ranger-superbe-arch/7723024955.html.

Posted on Facebook Wheelman group by Ron Grogg. Caption says 1902 Frederick Roach bike shop at 519 Hennepin Ave. Minneapolis Mn From Hennepin History Museum photo collection. Looks like the buildings are still there on google maps but the livery stable has been altered a fair amount.

Your totally right! I must have forgotten my meds or made my morning tea too weak to wake me up.😆

Chain ring looks like a match on the Reading Standard.

Brant, this is posted on Facebook Old Bikes Club. Pope Clipper Light Roadster?

"Daily rider" but the back tires flat, there's cobwebs on the bottom bracket and a few decades of dirt and grime.. ??😅

This is a local estate sale but there are so many catagories of collectable I thought the CABE community might enjoy the cruise through the hundreds of photographs. From Star Wars to the Civil War, Southwest souvenirs to a 1950s Scintillating radiation detector. Matchbox, Hotwheels, toy trains...

California Centennial Parade in San Francisco 1950.

And it "peddals with ease" using those post 1972 reflector peddals. Those peddals with two Ds are REALLY rare...good old double D peddals.😜

Friday we had a great sunrise for the morning ride. Then Monday had an equally great sunrise. As we rode around the old landfill affectionatly known as Mount Trashmore everyone stopped for pictures. And even the sky to the west colored up well. A photo of Jon taking a photo of the group...

I really enjoyed this movie when it came out. My wife and I worked with a woman back in the 80s at the Maritime Museum in San Franccisco who spent the war as a teenager in one of the Japanese camps for enemy aliens, her parents were missionaries in China when the war broke out. She survived but...

Pre war English light roadster? No sign of the mandatory white paint on the rear fender, I think that was legally required in England in the mid 1930s? From the space between the tires and mudgaruds it looks like it was built for English 28" (iso 635) wheels but has the 26x1 3/8 (iso 590) put on...

Did you look sat this bike? Find a serial number or any badge outline?

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It's a speedometer that used a plastic propeller. I saw one last year at a vintage ride. Here's one for sale on Etsy, https://www.etsy.com/listing/1106954305/vintage-bicycle-propeller-vintage-bike.

The serial number on the bottom bracket is a big clue its a pre 1952 Schwinn frame. The format of the serial also confims Schwinn. Next time check the serial number on the guy selling the bike to see if he's legit.🤣

Those identical truss forks were on the 1927 Westfield frame I found. The letter in front of the serial number will be the date code.

Looks like its a Schwinn straightbar 24' wheel frame that was made into a Pig bike back in the day. https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/%E2%80%9Cpig-bikes%E2%80%9D.165232/.

Homan Sporting goods photo on Ebay from 1953.. Frank Homan of Fresno. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_A._Homan.

That badge ghost should help narrow it down. Of course it could have had hundreds of different oval badges back then that had nothing to do with who made it , just who sold it. Both Pierce and Hawthorne badges are that shape but a Pierce badge has the screws on the diagonal corners. It looks...

A great survivor! Careful cleaning and lubricating the moving parts is all this needs. Gently clean off the grime and take your time. You should find a serial number under the bottom bracket as it looks like a bike from the teens. I have a mid teens roadster with the same carmine paint with wide...

Great ride last night between storms. About 50 riders for a cruise around town to see the decorations. Put some bling on the 27 Westfield. St. Nick showed up on his 1972 Stingray. Got some holiday advice from a professional. Lots of people out on our local Christmas Tree Lane. This block...

Could it be a school bike license and not a city license? Moorehead Minnesota? Moorehead College in Kentucky?

I'm pretty much a let it be patina guy but clean, polish and protect with wax. I'll bet that could look really nice and the paint may take on a fine sheen/glow with some polishing. Here is an example of a bike with incredible patina, and the couple that owns them have a matching pair, his and...

Welcome! Aww, that was an easy one, now ask a hard one. 🤣

Glad to see it arrived safe and sound! These things are fascinating to me. Have fun with the project.

I stripped slathered on black house paint from a 1927 Westfield frame this summer using Ready Strip. The bike had almost no original paint but the small bits that were left did not seem to be affected by the Ready Strip. You could give it a try on an out of the way spot and see if the blue is...

Nice bike. Looks like there is a lot of original blue paint hiding under the surface, is it grime and dirt or some repaint over in black?

With the Serial on the dropout that is a Buffalo made bike. Mine is serial #180073 and up till now has been one of the highest made in Buffalo numbers to turn up, assumed it was made just prior to the sale to Emblem and move from Buffalo. I've considered it a 1916-17 though here some doing...

It's fine alkali dust that is common all over between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierras where ever there are old prehistoric dried up lake beds. Like the Bonneville Flats in Utah, area around the Great Salt Lake, various soda lakes in the west. Its corrosive, causes skin burns, etc. Kind of...

My office mate of 30 years and boss for about 20 contacted me a couple months ago saying he needed to find a home for his Burning Man bike from the 90s. He rescued the bike about 1992 from becoming scrap metal at the dump in San Francisco. It was in amazing original condition. He's 6'3' so he...

Sheldon's Browns tire size charts give some good information about these tire sizes. Interesting that English manufactured bikes would be shipped to Canada with the larger rims used in Europe while they put the smaller 590mm rims on bikes sent to the US...

This site has some good information about English manufacturers. It mentions Rudge being absorbed by Raleigh in 1943 so there should be a serial number on the seat tube that may date the frame. https://onlinebicyclemuseum.co.uk/frame-number-bicycle-dating-guide/ I had questions about my...

Nice bike, these make very comfortable riders. Looks like a few parts have been chainged out over time. The pedals are post 1972 with the reflectors. The fromt crank is a Raleigh, shoudl have a Rudge Hand crank but the front forks have the chrome crown and not the typical Raleigh style crown...

Nice spooky ride back from the farmers market today. The neighborhood is still gearing up for the evenings mob of trick or treaters We get 400-500, up in the Gold Coast with the big houses they can get 2000 a night. Lot of effort and creativity in their decorations. Star Wars Skeleton Cantina...

I've had some nice rides in the past few days. Nice morning sunrises along the bay and even got out Monday for an evening ride with some of the local hi-wheel/wheelmen crowd (Greg Barron of Ridable Replicas hosts them). Nice solo morning ride on the 1927 Westfield klunker. The view from the...

Could it be a Westfield frame built prior or after the use of the collared lug? It has the same crownless forks as the 27 frame I found with brazed truss rods.

Nice find. Those forks are probably salvageable, my teens Pierce was found with similar bent forks. I took it to our local frame builder Bernie Mikkellsen who straightened it out with skill, knowledge, rope, 2x4s and a 1920s Model A axle for a pry bar. I have a 1927 Westfield Motobike frame and...

My old bottle digging partner from High School has been on a road trip with his wife. Today he sent me a photo of a nice Shelby Supreme for sale in an antique store in Paso Robles California. Unfortunatly he only sent the one photo. Next time I'm down that way at teh In-Laws I might have to stop...