The Motorbike Era

[tripple3]

Here's a moto bike I own that looks like a Crown by Great Western Manufacturing.

 

[redline1968]

Few more since last post.

 

[Hobo Bill]

breakshire blue baby

 

[piercer_99]

work in progress.

Circa 1918 Pierce Motor Bike model D.B.R.R.

 

[Balloonoob]

Just stumbled on this old post. How dang cool. Some good reading. Still got a ways to go on my 34 Colson. Nice to see @piercer_99 contributing and keeping it going.

 

[tripple3]

I still have the Great Western moto bike.
It's the oldest frame and fork I ride.
I put on a rack to make it useful.

It has a flat front tube for the 3rd time; one-of-these-days.....

 

[cyclingday]

Ok, maybe not exactly a Motorbike,

this one is an, Auto-Bike!

 

[cyclingday]

 

[SKPC]

1933 Colson Flyer moto...26" ballooner. Earliest 26er Colson moto by serial number that I have seen thus far.
With custom 3-spd rider wheelset below.

And with original New Departure/Lobdel 26" steel clincher(45mm rim) wheelset.

Post-1933, the long-lived 28" double-diamond, double-top-bar bikes/frames were on the out. It was at the end of the Great Depression and the end of this era, yet some makers held on until 1936/7 I believe using the motobike frame style and 28" wheels-Shelby/Snyder, etc.

 

[cyclingday]