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Penny farthing identification
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Craig Allen
Finally riding a big boys bike
Kyle, I'm glad you are enjoying it. What did your grandfather say about it?
He didnt get to see it yet. He's in an assisted living facility and they're basically on lock down at the moment. We'll have to show him some pictures until he can see it in person.
New Mexico Brant
Riding a '38 Autocycle Deluxe
Looks fabulous! Congratulations!
Shawn Michael
Wore out three sets of tires already!
That is a great looking bike, with a nice color scheme. Its hard to believe its the same bike. The red tires look especially good.
pelletman
I live for the CABE
Craig, the bike looks great! As I am sure you have realized by this point the 85's had the second "semi tubular" rear fork. I am not looking at serial numbers at this point but I would suspect that bike is 1883. 83 and 84 are hard to differentiate but 82-84 had the first style (and I think oft broken) rear fork. The only difference between 83 and 84 that I can think of off the top of my head is the rear spring seat "clamp" for lack of a better word, for the rear of the seat spring that is screwed to the backbone. the 83's were a plain forging, the 84 had the anti rattle style with a screw in it. I think that doesn't apply here with the optional swing spring, but I would suspect Columbia put out at least 3000 experts the first two years as they sold 1079 of the primitive standards the first two years of that model.
