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Hello everyone! Just wanted to let you all know that the museum will be deaccessioning some bicycles at Memory Lane this year. We should have around 100 bicycles ranging from 19th century to the 2000s. We plan on being there as soon as we can Friday morning and staying most of the day. I would...

Good morning/afternoon/evening, We are looking for some Sears Spaceliner advertisements to use with a lobby display for the next few months. If you own Spaceliner advertisements and would be willing to allow us to use it (with proper credit of course), please DM us the highest resolution scan...

Good morning! Our apologies, our website has been out of date for some time now. We are working on a new one, but it is slow moving. If you submit a request through our email [email protected], we should be able scan what you need.

Maybe not the heaviest bicycle, but I can tell you after moving this one up and down the stairs the last few months that that gun is HEAVY.

Does anyone recognize this tricycle? Patron says it is a family heirloom supposedly 100 years old. No markings or headbadge.

Thank you so much for the response, John. I appreciate you taking the time to help us.

Good morning/afternoon/evening! While going through the Schwinn archives, we've uncovered what is labeled a Schwinn Dynamometer. We have no paperwork nor have we come across anything like this before. Has anyone seen something like this? Do you know how it was used/why it was used? Any kind of...

It is funny I stumbled on this today. We just uncovered several 78s of the Army-Navy E ceremony from the Schwinn vault. We are working on securing a way to play them to learn what they are.

They certainly took up a lot of space!

Thank you for your patience on the request, I'm glad we could help.

This was scanned for a research request, I thought I would share. Apologies if it is common/has been shared already.

yeah he wasn't sure that's why he contacted us

they were basing it on the last day of production.

Patron sent this in and thinks it could be the last Schwinn bike manufactured. Posting the pics of serial number below. Any help with the year identification appreciated.

We do apologize for this oversight. While I am happy to report that the Elgin Gull is still here, the sign in the photo is long gone. It was not here when I first joined the staff of the BMA some years ago. Again, our apologies.

Do you know of anyone that makes reproduction handlebars? I would prefer that to the rusted steel ones on it now.

Good morning/afternoon/evening. We have a 1935 Elgin Gull in the collection, though many of the parts are incorrect - notably the fenders and handlebars. The Elgin motor that is attached to it will be taken off as well, and displayed next to it as the rigging that attaches it to the bicycle is...

Good morning/afternoon/evening. This bicycle was sent to us, requesting any information we had on it. I know very little about chopper bicycles and while I know TNT makes bicycle parts, I'm unaware of any bicycles they made. I suspect this is a custom machine with a TNT sticker on it, but I...

Thanks folks, I always appreciate your help!

Interesting. I assumed with the H0XXX it would correspond with the model number since that is how the models were labeled. Everything has to be as confusing as possible! Do you know how to decipher the rest of the serial number then?

We've been having that issue a lot - let me see if I can fix it.

Good morning/afternoon/evening. I'm trying to ID this Huffy Clean Machine. I can't find a chart or guide like there is for Schwinn, at least not one that will give me a solid answer. All I can deduce from this serial number is that it is a 1973 (the first 3 being the last digit of the year...

Thanks Craig!

no this is just a patron of the museum asking for an ID

sorry about that here they are

Patron requesting to know make and year on this Highwheel, any help would be appreciated.

It is not. It is a guest request.

Good morning/afternoon/evening. I'm wondering if anyone has an idea on the make/model of this tricycle.

We have another catalogue to share, this time a 1934 Colson. Pages 2-5 had to be scanned from a repro as our original is missing those pages.

One more Eclipse catalogue for all of you.

Another catalogue scanned in. Again, forgive the condition, it's older than sliced bread.

Scanned for a patron, thought someone may be able to use it here. Excuse the crocked pages, the book is falling apart.

While going through old files, I came across this photograph of, what I can only assume, was BMA in 1997 or 1998. I don't personally know anyone in the photograph, but thought some of you might recognize some friends. Enjoy!

Good morning/afternoon/evening, everyone. I am hoping that you can all help me with identifying a highwheel, though I know they aren't always the easiest to do so. We only have one photograph of it, and the only information that I have is that it is from Waterloo, Wisconsin. Any information...

Need some help identifying a bicycle made in West Germany, the owner thinks it might be from the 1950s and the sticker says Standard Bicycles.

Thanks everyone!

Hi folks. Here is a request that we received that I was hoping you could help with. "I'm looking for info on a bike I just acquired. It has an Arrow USA badge on the front & a serial number of 5436853. I believe this may mean the bike was manufactured in 1954. I'm having a hard time finding...

Thank you so much this helps us out tremendously!

Need information on this bike. We have it as a Ladies National Hard Tire Safety bicycle made in 1890, but the National Cycling Company wasn't around until 1892, so I'm thinking the date is wrong or perhaps the manufacturer. Any information would be appreciated.

I'll try to look through the binders that we have here sometime this week and see if it says anything.

Good morning/afternoon/evening! I have an interesting piece here that I'd like some insight on if anyone knows anything about it. This may fall under the "Custom Bikes" category, so forgive me if this is posted in the wrong section. The only bit of information is that the buyer was told that it...

Bummer! Thanks for all the useful feedback, everyone!

Good morning/afternoon/evening everyone. I'm hoping that you can help shine some light on a recent acquisition of ours. The bicycle has a Dayton head badge, but the tank is labeled as a Dayton Friction Toy Co. motor. The only Friction Toy Co. objects I can find are (very cool) toy miniatures...

I had this catalogue scanned for a patron and thought I would drop it here if anyone was interested.

Sorry about that, I completely overlooked that board. Obviously I'm still learning all of this, but I knew that it looked strange/unlike any other Huffman I'd seen so far. I appreciate all the answers, you guys are always very helpful. I'm going to have to start putting the CABE on the payroll!

Good morning/afternoon/evening! I have received an inquiry about a bicycle I don't think I've seen before, and was hoping that someone here has. "It’s got a plaque that says “US Army, Huffman, MFG. CO., 1912”. The chain cover says “41st DIV 161st INF” (likely in reference to the 41st...

Thanks for coming in. I'm glad to see that the changes we've made are well-received. It's all still a work in progress, but I hope to see more of you in the museum sometime!

We actually have about 20 of these, ranging from the 50s into the 70s. If there is interest, I can try to scan them as I have time.

Thank you so much for the information! This is exactly what I was looking for, I am sure the owner will be thrilled.