Mohawk bicycle

[Freqman1]

Like Boris said you will lose money restoring this bike. Parts would be hard to get. If you are going to sell it I wouldn't do a thing unless you have experience properly cleaning something like this and even then it's probably wasted labor and time. V/r Shawn

 

[Barto]

I would clean it up, put some tires on it and go out in the street to do some wheelies (after I find my helmet, elbow pads, knee pads, gloves, shin guards, safety glasses, a cup, road barriers and a crosswalk monitor)

 

[the2finger]

They rust nice

 

[GregoryBrown27]

Anyone know about Mohawk bikes

Mohawk bicycles were built by the Homer Peter Snyder Manufacturing Company (H.P. Snyder Mfg. Co.) of Little Falls, New York between 1925 and 1972. H.P. formed the H.P. Snyder Mfg. Co. in 1894. It became a steady place for employment in Little Falls, NY. The firm was successful from the time it opened its doors until the firm was sold in 1972. H.P. Snyder was chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee which generated the Indian Citizen Act of 1924 (A.K.A. the Snyder Act). The legislation granted United States citizenship to all Native Americans. To recognize the legislation and show his pride in the Snyder Act, H.P. ordered the construction of the Mohawk Bicycle. He chose the “Mohawk name because historically, the Mohawk (Kanienʼkehá꞉ka) people were originally based in the valley of the Mohawk River which runs on the south side of Little Falls, NY, the home of H.P. Snyder Mfg. Co...

H.P. Snyder Co. manufactured the following bicycles:

Rollfast – Distributed through a partnership George Delancey Harris and the D.P. Harris Hardware and Manufacturing Company – They were considered quality machines with a design that was decidedly more conservative than those of their contemporaries.

Hawthorne – Distributed through Montgomery Ward department stores shared parts with Rollfast. Same quality as Rollfast and widely distributed.

MoHawk – The pride of H.P. Snyder. In the absence of a header badge the later models can be distinguished by the three-blade crankset with one hole per blade. The Rollfast bike used two holes per blade. These bikes received an additional quality inspection over Rollfast and Hawthorne. The Mohawks had distinctive features not shared with the other bikes. Their low distribution numbers make them somewhat a mystery, but may cycle experts and repairman agree that they are a high quality bike.

 

[stezell]

This post is 6 years old and the og poster hasn't been on here since.

V/r
Sean

 

[GTs58]

This post is 6 years old and the og poster hasn't been on here since.

V/r
Sean

He did add some useful information for future reference.

 

[GregoryBrown27]

He did add some useful information for future reference.

Yeah, I found some information and I didn't know where else to put it. =D

 

[mrg]

What years was the Mohawk name/badge used?

 

[Archie Sturmer]

With the circa ~1970’s BMA sticker, the bike might have been from the Mossberg era?

 

[GregoryBrown27]

What years was the Mohawk name/badge used?

Most sources agree that the Mohawk name was not used before 1925 and not after 1975. An article on https://mylittlefalls.com/ says the H. P. Snyder MFG Co. "closed it's doors" in 1972. https://vintageamericanbicycles.com/ says that the Rollfast name continued until 1975, which may have been the distributers liquidating inventory already on hand, if production stopped in 1972. I'm interested to see any Mohawk advertisements from the mid century, but I haven't seen any.