Show your Davis built bicycles

[cyclingday]

Thank you, @Goldenindian
Now, I can sleep at night.

 

[Goldenindian]

The bars without the point stamped into the crossbar I swear I seen referenced as “Ideal” bars..they don’t seem to be the early teens era...seem to be a lot more prevalent in the 1920s on rangers ect....I have never seen a pair of “ideals”with two different lengths for the pulls...where as the pointed Shelby bars have two different lengths...short and long...I believe Davis sewing machine bicycles only had Shelby braced (pointed) from the factory. .Has anyone seen long pulls on the “ideal” ones?

 

[Rusty72]

Recently got this one.

 

[Rusty72]

Color is way off ! But I’ll take care of that.

 

[cr250mark]

Recently got this one.
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killer saddle
Nice Bike Man.
mark

 

[JO BO]

Never realized the width difference for 3 edge to 4 edge Davis stands before I placed them together. Little different bottom shape as well. 4 edge quite a bit wider at bottom. Pretty much the same everything else.

 

[JO BO]

A revisit to Shelby bars have me wondering when were these produced/end?

The ad states the crossbar was brazed to the main bar for strength so Brant’s Harley bar is only correct one per our discussion? Perhaps changes did occur to design through the years most of us are concerned with so we have more options..
most I see we consider Shelby have the eyelet for the crossbar unbrazed.

 

[Archie Sturmer]

I just removed some headset and bottom bracket cups from a presumably 1913 Davis, and found that all 4 were stamped with a number. The number is 3, and 3 is the number. Anyone else ever noticed stamped cups; was it a Davis thing; does it reflect a year?

 

[JO BO]

I was browsing a 1918 Harley Catalog and thought I would be reading the same words I had for years but a number started flashing. I always had in my mind all Harley motorcykes used a Troxel #2 saddle but here pops up a Troxel #1 motorbike saddle line......would have lost the house in a bet with someone. Pays to read more carefully

 

[mofoco1]

So would you say these are Davis? Any value to anyone?