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[Freqman1]

What is a “Frakinbike”?

A bike that is a mixture of parts. For example that chain ring is a Wald replacement. Not sure about that seat, wheels, or stem either.

 

[cmelledge]

So it really don’t matter what do to it. Not a valuable bike. I think I will strip it down, repaint and make a Georgia Bulldog themed bike. Put in a filler panel instead of a tank. Go Dawgs.

 

[Miq]

Imagine Dr Frankenstein built your bike using a mishmash of parts.

 

[Freqman1]

So it really don’t matter what do to it. Not a valuable bike. I think I will strip it down, repaint and make a Georgia Bulldog themed bike. Put in a filler panel instead of a tank. Go Dawgs.

While, I too, live in Georgia I’d vote for a Notre Dame themed bike

 

[cmelledge]

While, I too, live in Georgia I’d vote for a Notre Dame themed bike

Naaaaa Bulldogs.

 

[mrg]

Look like og CWC/AMF wheels and I'd vote for running the og patina paint job!

 

[cmelledge]

Look like og CWC/AMF wheels and I'd vote for running the og patina paint job!

Thanks but I would never paint cleat over rust or faded paint. That’s not me.

 

[mrg]

NO clear!! XXX!, just scrub a little with WD & 0000 steel wool and rub with linseed oil, great looking survivor.

 

[Dra]

I think it’s a perfect bulldog bike

 

[Oilit]

A bike that is a mixture of parts. For example that chain ring is a Wald replacement. Not sure about that seat, wheels, or stem either.

Are you sure that's a Wald? AMF used a very similar chain ring in the late '50's, but I'm not sure when they first appeared. And AMF may have got these from Wald too, for all I know. But the seat definitely looks later than the bike.

AMF's first Little Rock plant. | General Discussion About Old Bicycles

I thought this article was interesting. In an interview, a former employee of AMF in Little Rock AR, Beth Cripps (then Stuart) says that they actually started production in 1955 from a plant they bought in East Little Rock, before building the plant on W. 65th St. That's the first I've heard of...

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