Official: A real Harley Davidson or a fake? That is the question...

[fordmike65]

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1917? Harley-Davidson Bicycle | General Discussion About Old Bicycles

Hello! Wondering if anyone has any information on the Harley-Davidson wood rim bicycle. Seems to be a 1917-1921? era bike. Wondering what year the bike is what is likely after market/original... seat, light, fenders, kick stand? Also curious if anyone has an opinion on value. Let me know if...

thecabe.com

 

[New Mexico Brant]

This one?

Antique Prewar TOC Harley Davidson Dayton Davis Built Complete Homage Bicycle | Stuff on eBay, Craigslist, Facebook etc.

Antique Prewar TOC Harley Davidson Dayton Davis Built Complete Homage Bicycle On Ebay https://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Prewar-TOC-Harley-Davidson-Dayton-Davis-Built-Complete-Homage-Bicycle/254882879566?

thecabe.com

No, it was a kid's bike. There was also a third truss frame one in the last 5 or 6 weeks that also was problematic.

 

[fordmike65]

No, it was a kid's bike. There was also a third truss frame one in the last 5 or 6 weeks that also was problematic.

Here's the juvenile "HD"

Thread 'Harley Davidson Bike Help' https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/harley-davidson-bike-help.186058/

 

[New Mexico Brant]

There really should be a Harley Davidson specific thread. These random problematic bikes could be moved into the thread so they can be analyzed and compared together more easily.

Maybe the truss frame one has the wonky thread title, I can't find that one. That makes four bad ones in almost as many weeks.

 

[fordmike65]

There really should be a Harley Davidson specific thread. These random problematic bikes could be moved into the thread so they can be analyzed and compared together more easily.

We could make this thread dedicated to questionable Harley bicycles? Since there seem to be so many fakes and put together HD's out there? The title is quite fitting...

 

[New Mexico Brant]

We could make this thread dedicated to questionable Harley bicycles? Since there seem to be so many fakes and put together HD's out there? The title is quite fitting...

Agreed; You may want to edit the title to include Harley so it will pop up in a search.

 

[Archie Sturmer]

We are told that website operations and maintenance are burdensome enough, without the extra good ideas.
Yes, it would be a great idea to have a means of combining all of the HD-not threads into a single volume.

I was just thinking the other day that it would also be nice to clean up the site by deleting stale posts that say “bump” or just a word “thanks” (maybe replace with a thanks button?).

 

[Superman1984]

I'd be willing to delete some of my clustering unused contributing threads if it matters. Not opposed to it
@Dave Stromberger if enough people do that would it be beneficial?

 

[Freqman1]

we had a Flying Merkel only tread which morphed into a Miami general thread. There is a Davis thread but you have to pick through it for the HD stuff. Re: useless posts if people would use the “like” button more instead of trying to bump their post count it would cut down on a lot of clutter. V/r Shawn

 

[mike j]

For some strange reason, "Now there's the Huffy calling the Huffman, Harley" popped into my head.