~ The Balloon Big Ten & How Do You Rank Them? ~

[Krakatoa]

So a post idea that might be fun & nteresting!

Write your top 10 list using the reference numbers as below and let's see where it goes! Post ONE picture of one bike representing your #1 manufacturer. Feel free to write about your top and descending rankings in your post.

Have fun!

N

OHIO:

1. MURRAY
2. COLSON
3. HUFFMAN DAYTON
4. SHELBY
5.CWC

ILLINOIS:
6. SCHWINN
7. MONARK

THE EAST:

MASSACHUSSETS:
8. COLUMBIA WESTFIELD
9.IVER JOHNSON

NEW YORK:
10. SNYDER

 

[catfish]

COLUMBIA WESTFIELD #1

 

[Krakatoa]

Here's mine...

Speedster pic courtesy @saladshooter

7. MONARK
1. MURRAY
2. COLSON
3. HUFFMAN DAYTON
4. SHELBY
8. COLUMBIA WESTFIELD
5. CWC
6. SCHWINN
9. IVER JOHNSON
10. SNYDER

A pretty good group if you ask me, not a dud in the bunch...Columbia Westfield should be higher up in my rankings but that's what I can find. The others are less common in the Northeast so I may covet them more.

 

[catfish]

 

[ItIsWhatItIs]

7. MONARK
2. COLSON
4. SHELBY
5. CWC
8. COLUMBIA WESTFIELD
1. MURRAY
6. SCHWINN
3. HUFFMAN DAYTON
10. SNYDER
9. IVER JOHNSON


No Manton & Smith

 

[Freqman1]

#3 should just be Huffman and #8 should just be Westfield

#3 Huffman
#8 Westfield
#4 Shelby
the rest

BTW I own at least one of each of these and more Schwinns than any other marque. Each of these manufacturers made great bikes.

V/r Shawn

 

[tripple3]

I find it difficult to pick best manufacturer because of too many factors.
Are you asking the rank order of MY Bikes or yours??
#3 Huffman is awesome in style; my 1st; I think
#5 CWC is amazing to me.
#2 Colson; phenominal.
#4, & #1, Shelby and Murray are pretty equally awesome.
Check out the mfg that every one knows is #6 Schwinn; does not seem right.?
I own 8 of these mfgs and love them all.
Let's go for a ride!

1936 Dayton Safety Streamline (Owner Marty) @cyclingday

 

[barneyguey]

Although it's not near as cool as others, I'd have to say the B10 E is #1. It started us all on the Balloon tire craze.

Everybody else, copied Schwinn.

#2 would have to be the Aero Cycle. It started all the other companies on the more streamlined bicycles.

 

[slick]

I base this list on rideability, comfort, and style.
1. Shelby
2. Colson
3. Cwc
4. Westfield
5. Monark
6. J.C. Higgins
7. Elgin
8. Manton smith
9. Huffman
10. Schwinn

 

[Krakatoa]

The thread is mainly just an exercise in how you rank these 10 manufacturers and why. It's meant also to place them in a geographic context. It's interesting to me how successful each one of these companies was in their own way and that there's not a bad one in the bunch.