Teens bike ID

[Archie Sturmer]

The truss frame bicycle in the link provided, might be an A&S, but I believe that those pictures might show round rear forks at the bottom bracket, and curved bridges ‘tween stays.
Excelsior Michigan City head badge holes might be about 2+7/8 inches, (or even less from Indonesia), which might be considered somewhat close to 3”.

 

[ejlwheels]

I believe it is Schwinn-Made.
1917 Schwinn/Excelsior catalog
(no pic of three plate crown)

 

[bricycle]

Mead type fork, the early Meads had fancy scrolled taller badges with maybe vertical holes.

 

[Cooper S.]

The written description of the fork sounds pretty accurate, I wish it included a photo

I believe it is Schwinn-Made.
1917 Schwinn/Excelsior catalog
(no pic of three plate crown)
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[Cooper S.]

Crank is finally out

 

[chitown]

so after so more looking around, I noticed a lot of similarities between my frame and other teens schwinn built bikes. I asked Jesse McCauley (I’d tag him but idk his cabe handle) and he says the Schwinn World badge has just under 3” hole spacing. I also asked someone who has an excelsior badge and he says they’re about 3” spacing aswell. Also I found an old thread about a 1916ish excelsior with a very similar serial number placement as mine. https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/arnold-schwinn-excelsior-truss-bar-dating.56941/
So is it safe to assume it’s a schwinn built bike of some variety?

Can't rule out Snyder. Later Snyder/Rollfasts have a similar triple crown fork. The sprocket looks early Snyder for sure.

 

[Cooper S.]

What’s the badge spacing for synders?

Can't rule out Snyder. Later Snyder/Rollfasts have a similar triple crown fork. The sprocket looks early Snyder for sure.

 

[Archie Sturmer]

Mostly side holes; about 1+1/2” plus or minus, (if I recall correctly).

I believe that the numbers stamped into the crank shaft read, “760”. Seen a couple of those but never thought of them as old(?).

 

[Cooper S.]

While cleaning up the cranks, I found an F stamped on the inside of the sprocket. I’d this a clue?

 

[Cooper S.]

I found this velox for sale on eBay and it looks a lot like my bike. I’m not sure who made velox tho

https://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-19...ORK-CRANK-SET-/165212407244?campid=5335809022