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Identifying Indian bike

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Chainring is looking pierce/emblem....fender stay is original to frame.....probably came with fenders...fork replaced, frame bent from a good head on..........rear stays are interesting......don't look emblem/pierce at all.....serial buried under overpaint.

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The holes in the fork ends might have supported peened-in-place tapped studs for offset chain tensioner screws (like on some 1930’s Colson lug frames).
There were some much earlier manufacturers who used such design.
(Don’t think that the frame is a Colson though because of the curved seat stay bridge).

Hudson Michigan cycles also had a similar chain tensioner arrangement, but again the seat stay bridge looks different.
 
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Archie,
I agree, after looking at the frame that the holes are intended for chain tensioners.....and great work as always Blue Streak.
 
Pictures of the bottom bracket shell as well as underneath looking for the serial number would be most helpful at this point. The curved fender stay and seat post clamp arrangement could suggest Snyder built.
 
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