elginkid
I live for the CABE
I bought this bike from sunnydaze, as I have long wanted another deluxe equipped ladies B model bike, (pre frame redesign) which I thought restricted me just to the 1936 model year.
This one is a bit of a puzzle from an equipment standpoint. The frame seems like it was most definitely a 1935 frame. It has straight rear stays, and the bottom tube and seat tube both have the (unused) holes that would’ve attached the full coverage chainguard. And yet it’s equipped with the hockey stick guard that shows up for the first time in the 1936 catalog.
Both the 1935 and 1936 catalogs show all of the women's’ models with skirt guard lacing. It looks like they just put a pair of men’s fenders on this bike. This has no accommodation for rear lacing, and it’s also got the extra hole under the fender mount where a tail light wire could’ve been run (but without the riveted wire guides) for the optional Aerocycle style tail light.
This was also equipped with a Delta defender, which unfortunately has a corrosion hole from a long forgotten battery. To install the defender, they never drilled for the upper attachment bolt. The reflector was simply moved to the lower kickstand clip hole and the upper kickstand clip hole secured the bottom of the defender, and the top end is just loose.
This bike has the 1/2” pitch chain with the earlier cloverleaf, where most seem to sport the 1” pitch chains still.
For all of the equipment it has…it doesn’t have a locking fork, which it may just be too early in production for that to have been a possibility…but the locking fork shows up around the same time as the curved truss rods so
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I will need to figure out how to rewire all of the electrical components, but first I need to figure out the wire gauge and how to gracefully handle the wire sheath, as this appears to be two double wires (20 or 22 gauge most likely) inside a larger cloth sheath/loom.
I’m very much looking forward to getting this bike preserved, serviced and roadworthy.
This one is a bit of a puzzle from an equipment standpoint. The frame seems like it was most definitely a 1935 frame. It has straight rear stays, and the bottom tube and seat tube both have the (unused) holes that would’ve attached the full coverage chainguard. And yet it’s equipped with the hockey stick guard that shows up for the first time in the 1936 catalog.
Both the 1935 and 1936 catalogs show all of the women's’ models with skirt guard lacing. It looks like they just put a pair of men’s fenders on this bike. This has no accommodation for rear lacing, and it’s also got the extra hole under the fender mount where a tail light wire could’ve been run (but without the riveted wire guides) for the optional Aerocycle style tail light.
This was also equipped with a Delta defender, which unfortunately has a corrosion hole from a long forgotten battery. To install the defender, they never drilled for the upper attachment bolt. The reflector was simply moved to the lower kickstand clip hole and the upper kickstand clip hole secured the bottom of the defender, and the top end is just loose.
This bike has the 1/2” pitch chain with the earlier cloverleaf, where most seem to sport the 1” pitch chains still.
For all of the equipment it has…it doesn’t have a locking fork, which it may just be too early in production for that to have been a possibility…but the locking fork shows up around the same time as the curved truss rods so
.I will need to figure out how to rewire all of the electrical components, but first I need to figure out the wire gauge and how to gracefully handle the wire sheath, as this appears to be two double wires (20 or 22 gauge most likely) inside a larger cloth sheath/loom.
I’m very much looking forward to getting this bike preserved, serviced and roadworthy.
