Post pics of your "Fastback" zep-Hawthorne or rollfast

[Freqman1]

Kind of strange how this thread is titled "zeps" yet I don't think any of the bikes shown are true Zeps. Most look like sport models but I think everyone has taken to referring to that frame style as Zep. Kinda like calling every cantilever Schwinn an Autocycle Deluxe or Phantom. V/r Shawn

 

[rollfaster]

That's why I call mine a rollfast motobike...

Kind of strange how this thread is titled "zeps" yet I don't think any of the bikes shown are true Zeps. Most look like sport models but I think everyone has taken to referring to that frame style as Zep. Kinda like calling every cantilever Schwinn an Autocycle Deluxe or Phantom. V/r Shawn

He'll it could have been a sports model or fastback. But absolutly not a zep. I think because of the frame style everyone calls them zeps. I did too at first. I had to be educated on this subject. Thanks jason(jpromo). Rob.

 

[bigmagnatone]

czxc

 

[Freqman1]

I think it comes more from a lack of understanding what a Zep really is. When someone says Zep to me I expect to see a deluxe Hawthorne with a specific light(s), tank, rack, and locking fork. V/r Shawn

Here is real Zep courtesy of Nostalgic.net

and a later version (different frame)

 

[rustjunkie]

think it's safe to say if frame looks like this:

or this:

or even this:

it never was a Zep.
The last one is the closest except for the color: afaik the Snyder Motobike frame Hawthorne Zep was available in any color you wanted, as long as it was black.

 

[rollfaster]

37 rollfast motobike

Same bike,updated pic. For the hell of it.

 

[spoker]

zep makes some great handcleaner also

 

[rustjunkie]

1939 Rollfaster

 

[prewarbikes4sale]

1937 Zep

2500.00
http://vintagebikesforsale.tumblr.com/

 

[rustjunkie]