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Great Western Manufacturing Company La Porte, Indiana U.S.A Crown Bike 19?? HELP !
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Balloontyre
Riding a '38 Autocycle Deluxe
Headbadge
Can you post a good pic of head badge, it will help date the bike. Looks like the front fender is a rear converted.
Can you post a good pic of head badge, it will help date the bike. Looks like the front fender is a rear converted.
bricycle
I'm the Wiz, and nobody beats me!
Good! never part it out...it's too cool. If I had $500, I would offer it to you. bri.
cyclejunkies
Finally riding a big boys bike
looks exactly like the one you posted,the top fender brace broke off and someone flipped the existing one upside down ,front fender has the manufactured indention and hole for the fork that is on the bike.
Balloontyre
Riding a '38 Autocycle Deluxe
on the head badge, Does the "R" and "W" script run low into/thru the blue underline?
bricycle
I'm the Wiz, and nobody beats me!
What "floats your boat"?
cyclejunkies
Finally riding a big boys bike
i will get back to you on that when i go home later today. thanks
CrownKing
Look Ma, No Hands!
date
AWESOME FIND!!
This one is a transition motorbike. Date according to the badge variation is late 1914-1917. My educated stab is 1915. This frame wasn't made for more than a year. Incorrect parts are both fenders, the h-bars are dealer-installed or added by someone. Rare accessory and valuable in their own right. Metal seat pan means wrong/newer seat. Added pedals.
It is also rare to find a GW-frame with the curved bars this close together, or on such a compact diamond. I have seen one, but almost 100% of all curved-bars are further apart and it is THOSE frames that were the spec-bikes for Johnson Motor Wheel attachments...this one was not...and of course the first JMW didn't debut until 1918.
Very nice find!...and quite exciting for me(as the GW historian) to see this "living-example"...frames from this specific period before WWI are the most interesting within this company's history...and the most short-lived.
Please post more photos..close-ups if possible...of sprocket, and bottom of crank housing.There were some subtle changes to these areas around this time...
Thanks for posting.
Richard
AWESOME FIND!!
This one is a transition motorbike. Date according to the badge variation is late 1914-1917. My educated stab is 1915. This frame wasn't made for more than a year. Incorrect parts are both fenders, the h-bars are dealer-installed or added by someone. Rare accessory and valuable in their own right. Metal seat pan means wrong/newer seat. Added pedals.
It is also rare to find a GW-frame with the curved bars this close together, or on such a compact diamond. I have seen one, but almost 100% of all curved-bars are further apart and it is THOSE frames that were the spec-bikes for Johnson Motor Wheel attachments...this one was not...and of course the first JMW didn't debut until 1918.
Very nice find!...and quite exciting for me(as the GW historian) to see this "living-example"...frames from this specific period before WWI are the most interesting within this company's history...and the most short-lived.
Please post more photos..close-ups if possible...of sprocket, and bottom of crank housing.There were some subtle changes to these areas around this time...
Thanks for posting.
Richard
CrownKing
Look Ma, No Hands!
date
AWESOME FIND!!
This one is a transition motorbike. Date according to the badge variation is late 1914-1917. My educated stab is 1915. This frame wasn't made for more than a year. Incorrect parts are both fenders, the h-bars are dealer-installed or added by someone. Rare accessory and valuable in their own right. Metal seat pan means wrong/newer seat. Added pedals.
It is also rare to find a GW-frame with the curved bars this close together, or on such a compact diamond. I have seen one, but almost 100% of all curved-bars are further apart and it is THOSE frames that were the spec-bikes for Johnson Motor Wheel attachments...this one was not...and of course the first JMW didn't debut until 1918.
Very nice find!...and quite exciting for me(as the GW historian) to see this "living-example"...frames from this specific period before WWI are the most interesting within this company's history...and the most short-lived.
Please post more photos..close-ups if possible...of sprocket, and bottom of crank housing.There were some subtle changes to these areas around this time...
Thanks for posting.
Richard
AWESOME FIND!!
This one is a transition motorbike. Date according to the badge variation is late 1914-1917. My educated stab is 1915. This frame wasn't made for more than a year. Incorrect parts are both fenders, the h-bars are dealer-installed or added by someone. Rare accessory and valuable in their own right. Metal seat pan means wrong/newer seat. Added pedals.
It is also rare to find a GW-frame with the curved bars this close together, or on such a compact diamond. I have seen one, but almost 100% of all curved-bars are further apart and it is THOSE frames that were the spec-bikes for Johnson Motor Wheel attachments...this one was not...and of course the first JMW didn't debut until 1918.
Very nice find!...and quite exciting for me(as the GW historian) to see this "living-example"...frames from this specific period before WWI are the most interesting within this company's history...and the most short-lived.
Please post more photos..close-ups if possible...of sprocket, and bottom of crank housing.There were some subtle changes to these areas around this time...
Thanks for posting.
Richard
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