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Chicyco-Looking for info

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Great Machine you have !!

CAUTION ... Avoid any inclination to clean this badge.

This machine may be the only example of a Schwinn-Built
CHICYCO (CHIcago CYcle COmpany) Bicycle known, bearing
that particular badge. It is very important that the badge
stay with this particular machine.


Purchased the only-known example of this badge from notable
Chicago-area collector >>> Ed Boros (d.).. maybe in the late eighties
or early nineties. He did not want to sell it. Ed's beautiful wife
would not let him refuse my offer. He sold it to me.


Wasn't looking for a deal .. just wanted to own that badge.
It was easily a grail badge in my collection. The badge .. and
the smaller version now-reside in the collection of Scott McCaskey.


Paid a bundle for that badge. When Scott purchased nearly 99%+
of my badge collection, this past April .. he received this badge.


Hell, yes, he paid a bundle.

That badge was one of the ''Native American'' figures depicted on
American bicycle badges in my collection. The image does not
represent any particular Native American.


There may be a lot of nickel plate remaining on your badge. Any
chemical or abrasive that might be used to make it look ''all shiny''
... would not honor your badge. If you must futz with the badge ...
hire CABE Administrator,
@Dave Stromberger

The previous paragraph applies to the bicycle, as well.

The less that badge is handled -- the better.

You are very fortunate to own this machine.

..... patric

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Doesn't look Schwinn to me. I've seen that chain ring just can't place it. V/r Shawn

Snyder or Great Western imo. That fork eliminates Schwinn as I have never seen that version so I'm leaning towards Snyder.

Homer P Snyder has some history with American Indians besides building bikes for jobbers. He almost exclusively built for jobbers before cutting a deal with Rollfast to build all their bikes starting in the late teens. Not many examples of Snyder built mid-teen bikes either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Citizenship_Act

"The Snyder Act of 1924 admitted Native Americans born in the U.S. to full U.S. citizenship. Though the Fifteenth Amendment, passed in 1870, granted all U.S. citizens the right to vote regardless of race, it wasn't until the Snyder Act that Native Americans could enjoy the rights granted by this amendment."
 
In Entry #11, this typer indicated , ''This may be
the only example of a Schwinn-Built CHICYCO
bicycle known ... ''. Well, I do believe I gave out
wrong information. Don't believe the machine
is Schwinn, at all.


What threw me were the fore and aft trumpet-
mouths on the undertank bar. They really look
Schwinn-built. However, the undertank bar
appears to be 7/8-inch, O.D.


Schwinn bicycles of the era sported one-inch
O.D. undertank bars.


Thank you for bothering to read this. Not sure
what the factory origin of the unit is. Believe
Indiana-Built bicycles have Fauber cranksets,
for the most part. No tellin' what the CHICYCO
has in the crankcase.


Am mailing each reader a free, Fauber, Six-Bubble
replica chainring Tie-Tack for puttin' up with my
foibles. Well, not really.


..... patric


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Two more from the web...first is “Athlete” second is “Vim” of Chicago......with monikers like Athlete and Hawthorne(which the red bike pictured above is), I think Snyder/D.P Harris Hardware... is a good. I.d. Think you where right chi town. Glad you kept all of us guessing. Love doing some research on wood rim bikes.
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