24" New World Prewar Camelback. Unique

[volksboy57]

not actually a camelback... just a DX with no lower bar. there is a 50's model that shows up at swap meets for sale the same way.

How would you define a camelback then? Cause you could say that a DX is just a camelback with a lower bar added.

 

[49autocycledeluxe]

camelbacks are unique. like Stingray fastbacks and certain lightweight 26" Schwinns where the same bike is available with a curved top bar and a shorter seat tube. there is not another exact bike with a curved top tube and no other bars.

I wish I had a picture of the 50's 26" I mentioned. it is an original paint bike. everything is the same except no lower bars. the same individual frame parts could be used to build a DX, cantilever or straight bar bike. I bet it was the "Price leader" to get people in the store with a cheaper price oin order to upsell the more expensive model.

this is a camelback. that's how I got it figured anyways.

 

[GTs58]

On the early prewar models, they called the single bar frame a camelback. On the new 1955 Flying Star they called the frame a single bar. On the Fastback Sting Ray they called it the fastback frame. On the Speedster it was a curved top bar. There was a 60's post war frame they called a camelback but don't remember what the model was. And all these frames were slightly different. The early prewar camelback did not curve down, it was angled down. Bottom line?

 

[49autocycledeluxe]

there was a 26' wheeled 3 speed , maybe a racer, on C list for a while with the curved top tube but it is gone now. I see Varsities made the same way. probably not called a camelback, I know the fastback was a fastback,it says it right on the chain guard. just an example of a unique frame.

the term Camelback is now like Crescent wrench. Crescent was a name brand of adjustable wrenches now they are all called that.

this is just all my opinion which is only worth what someone will pay me for it.

I wonder if that little girl knows she is all over the internet. probably grown up now.

 

[49autocycledeluxe]

go to google images and put in camelback bicycle. it shows a bunch of old prewar bikes like the green one and the varsities and other Schwinn lightweights I spoke of.

it is also a company that makes great hydration backpacks. hydrate or die.

 

[GTs58]

Here's another one that showed up today, found on Facebook.

Bad A$$ lil' Schwinn | Stuff on eBay, Craigslist, Facebook etc.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1809269002746983/ Not usually into Schwinns or kids bikes but this one is cool. I have a soft spot for the single bar camelbacks.

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[49autocycledeluxe]

this is the bike I saw at the swap meet without the 2-speed. it was green and pretty good condition, probably wanted 5 or 6 hundred.

 

[volksboy57]

camelbacks are unique. like Stingray fastbacks and certain lightweight 26" Schwinns where the same bike is available with a curved top bar and a shorter seat tube. there is not another exact bike with a curved top tube and no other bars.

I wish I had a picture of the 50's 26" I mentioned. it is an original paint bike. everything is the same except no lower bars. the same individual frame parts could be used to build a DX, cantilever or straight bar bike. I bet it was the "Price leader" to get people in the store with a cheaper price oin order to upsell the more expensive model.

this is a camelback. that's how I got it figured anyways.

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They can add a lower bar to that to make this model. Possibly. Yours does look a bit taller.

 

[Archie Sturmer]

I believe that “camelback” may have been an A&S trademark at one time?
I believe that the term was applied at that time to drop bar frames; like a diamond frame, but with a bent or kinked top tube; (i.e., drop bar), and unlike the motorbikes, they had no truss tube.

One might ask, which came first, the drop bar frame, or double drop bar frame (motorbike)?

In about 1920, Westfield had advertised a “camelback” but then changed the name to “junior roadster” — for some reason(?).
The roadster was a diamond frame, and the junior roadster was a drop bar frame.
I believe that in the middle 1930’s, Westfield’s junior roadster became the camelback again.

Who was the maker of the green 28” drop bar frame? (The chain ring front sprocket looks more like a Miami part).

 

[49autocycledeluxe]

the green bike pictured has an Aero King badge and the maker is unknown as far as I know. search Aero King here, it was posted in the bikes on ebay-craigslist section for sale on Craigslist and someone here bought it and cleaned it up real nice.