1940's Rollfast...Quite Crusty!

[JLF]

Great story! Thanks for sharing.

This confirms the girls Rollsfast I found in a barn this summer is most likely 1930’s as the seat stay design is different. All else looking much the same.

 

[HARPO]

Great story! Thanks for sharing.

This confirms the girls Rollsfast I found in a barn this summer is most likely 1930’s as the seat stay design is different. All else looking much the same.

Can you share a photo for the rest of us...please...

 

[JLF]

Oh sure. As found just pulled from the barn. I guess there is more different than I first thought.

 

[HARPO]

Oh sure. As found just pulled from the barn. I guess there is more different than I first thought. View attachment 1269581

Are those 28'' rims? It looks just like the 1930's Black Beauty/Hawthorne bike I purchased recently (as found condition photo). Not the fork, but everything else

 

[JLF]

Wow! It certainly does! Not 28’s, these are 26” wheels. Perhaps it was an option back in the day?
Mine has a Rollfast badge, and is under a layer of house paint. Here’s another photo. Grips removed is only change.

 

[HARPO]

Wow! It certainly does! Not 28’s, these are 26” wheels. Perhaps it was an option back in the day?
Mine has a Rollfast badge, and is under a layer of house paint. Here’s another photo. Grips removed is only change.

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Mine was painted also.
I started to strip it down and EVENTUALLY will finish. I keep starting new projects instead of finishing one, lol!

Yours appears to have a lot of space under the fenders, so maybe the wheels were switched out at some point.

 

[JLF]

They definitely were changed. At least the front. As the front wheel has a Schwinn Fore Brake. Or whatever they are called.

 

[Adamtinkerer]

OA bath candidate! Should have the reverse year/factory code on the BB.

 

[HARPO]

OA bath candidate! Should have the reverse year/factory code on the BB.

To much paint flaking off to do anything with it, no less a bath. I'm afraid to dust it off in certain spots!

 

[Mountain Trail Andy]

I took these shots when the bike came out of the damp basement for the first time in decades. BTW...this was the only way to get into the basement. No access from inside the house.View attachment 1269485

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HARPO, I've got her younger sister!