1955 Flying Star Pictures Please

[Flingdangle]

Hey guys, when you look at the second picture of my bike at the beginning of the thread, you can see a square piece of steel that holds my kickstand on. Is that correct?

 

[GTs58]

Hey guys, when you look at the second picture of my bike at the beginning of the thread, you can see a square piece of steel that holds my kickstand on. Is that correct?

It's correct for the person that put on that piece of flat plate steel. I would've rounded off the corners a bit.

 

[GTs58]

Wow!

Wow! So I can go with Spitfire or Hornet. I've already got a Spitfire badge so I think I'm gonna go that route. Thank you GTS58.

It is a middleweight frame and it has painted rims so, it's not the Deluxe balloon Hornet.

 

[Rivnut]

It's correct for the person that put on that piece of flat plate steel. I would've rounded off the corners a bit.

If you figure out what model it is, it could be on of the bikes that Schwinn built with a “detachable” kick stand.

 

[GTs58]

If you figure out what model it is, it could be on of the bikes that Schwinn built with a “detachable” kick stand.

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The stand on his bike has a 3x3 x 1/4"? piece of plate steel for the top clamping. The model was most likely a standard Hornet or the Spitfire. Both had the bolt on stands and the rolled stems. And the feather guard and painted rims.

 

[Flingdangle]

So that 3x3x1/4" plate isoem?

 

[GTs58]

So that 3x3x1/4" plate is oem?

Oh heavens no.

 

[Rivnut]

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Hornet? If so, what year? I’m working on a ‘54 that will (hopefully) look just like this when I’m finished with it. Why is it when you try to work on more than one bike at a time, you seem to work backwards?

 

[GTs58]

Hornet? If so, what year? I’m working on a ‘54 that will (hopefully) look just like this when I’m finished with it. Why is it when you try to work on more than one bike at a time, you seem to work backwards?

It's a nice 1955 Spitfire.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/324909038183?campid=5335809022

 

[Rivnut]

Should have looked closer. The Hornet has a tank, truss rods, and headlamp. But still has a detachable kickstand. I’ve had it disassembled for so long, I’ve forgotten how it was equipped - except for that odd detachable kickstand.