Savage

[frampton]

I bought this bike today. The pictures were sent to me by the seller prior to purchase. It surely has a few non correct parts. I would appreciate anyone's input.

Thanks.

 

[catfish]

Very cool tall frame bike!

 

[Wheeled Relics]

superb! interested if it's ever to change hands again in the future! great tall frame double bar.

 

[willswares1220]

That badge would never be politically correct in today's standards with the "savage". Cool badge anyway!

 

[frampton]

The top of the badge is obscured. Does anyone have this badge? If so, can you post a picture of it so I can see what it says? Thanks.

 

[Wheeled Relics]

frame set seems like a solid original. trumpeted and wrapped lugging. Fenders (early teens?) and crankset may or may not be original but are correct. American standard sized bb? Stem & handlebars seem post war. 700c or 26" prewar lightweight roadster wheels? prewar pedals but not as early as the frameset. Savage was a badge picked up later by HP Snyder, but obviously seems like it had earlier origins. Closely resembles the Mohawk badges with the crossed arrows.

 

[frampton]

I found this picture on the net this morning. Looks like no information is obscured on my badge. Any guess on the date of my frame and fork?

 

[bricycle]

Miami made???

 

[frampton]

I have not disassembled it yet to verify, but it looks like there is orange paint hiding under the other colors. On closer inspection, it's the primer.

 

[hoofhearted]

Miami made???

Good Form - Bri ... !!!

Every piece of catalog-lit i have seen from Miami
will list the frame sizes of the machines.

Have never seen anything listed over 24-inches
from top of seat mast to center of crankcase.

However ... when we know that Miami was the building
company ... it's no stretch of a thought process to realize
they could build ANY size machine in demand.

Am goin' out to the studio today to measure the very-tall
Miami-Built i received from ''Diamond'' Dave Stromberger ...

Never measured the head-tube length ... and would like to
document it here and in the ''Anyone Here Own A Miami Flying Merkel Bicycle ? ........" thread.

Edited Foto 10/19/2015 today.

Look ... here's another concern -- mayhaps it's nunno my
beeswax ... but there is the MLC swap happenin' this week.

What with the number of CABErs wantin' a Miami-Built ...
seems those Miami's are still hard to I.D. -- as echoed by
this very thread.

Just betwixt me and you ... those frames of the Miami variety
(tall and otherwise) are more difficult to find than legible fotos
of the dark side of the moon.

Have you prepared yourself to FIND one ... or have you
relegated yourself to the camp of those that only look ?

Bricycle ... I have great respect for your positive I.D. of this
particular Savage as a Miami-Built.


........ patric


ONE MORE THING ... am not saying Miami was the only manufacturer
to ever actually custom-build a special frame size for the consumer.

It's just that i have never seen such a thing from any other building-
company that could.

^^^...... Foto Edited 10/19/2015 to show Headtube size. ........ ^^^