Early front flat fender i.d.

[ohmybike]

Need help ID this fender. Which bicycle would it go on? Color looks orange and blue down the center with a 2 stripes on the edge of center fender. Thanks

 

[ejlwheels]

Looks like it would go on a Schwinn-made bike from the teens through early twenties.
Those fender braces are pretty uniquely Schwinn

 

[Jesse McCauley]

Looks like it would go on a Schwinn-made bike from the teens through early twenties.
Those fender braces are pretty uniquely Schwinn

Hey Eric, is it the "teardrop" shaped window that is Schwinn specific in your experience?

 

[ejlwheels]

The big open shape of the teardrop
the single rivet attachments
and the single bolts attaching to the fender

Schwinn rivet heads are smaller that others and almost hemispherical

Other makes are pretty flat
(with the exception of rivets on later 30's Colsons with flat braces )


In other makes where the tab takes 2 braces,
one brace has one rivet so it can pivot while the other has 2 so it is fixed.
Also nearly all other makes are attached to the fender with 2 rivets (or bolts).

Schwinn uses the same single rivet axle tabs on flat braces through about 1937
but the fender attachment changes to 2 rivets when the fenders change from flat/gutter to round

There is a similar brace used on early Snyder-mades with gutter fenders
but the teardrop window is smaller, the single rivet heads on the axle tab are bigger and flatter,
and it has double rivets where it attaches to the fender

 

[ohmybike]

thanks for the input. This front is more flat then rounded. Would color give a clue orange and blue?

 

[dave the wave]

is it a front fender? be my guess.does it have a fork hole to mount it on the fork? or does it clip on the fork with wire? if that's the case then its 1914-15 could be anything from Davis,miami ,excelsior.