cudak888
Look Ma, No Hands!
Hello all; long-time resident of Bikeforums.net Classic & Vintage (VLW collector) here.
I stumbled upon this machine during a job that I've been doing for the last two days; figured I would share the photos here as well:
It's not a Wright Van Cleve, but the tubing, lugs, and "Ferrier" stamped dual plate fork crown seem to imitate this one quite well (save for the geometry), right down to the Ferrier (?) fork crown and blades.
It has a similar seat lug binder on it to some of the other, existing Wright machines; ditto for the rear stays and dropouts. Granted, I'd assume these lugs and tubing were common in their era; hence the similarity to the Wright machine.
Not the Wright badge, obviously:
Pedal threads are stripped, and the headset has been buggered up as well - both fixable with some brass to the headset threads (plus re-threading) and helicoils to the crankset. Someone stuck a sleeve in the seatpost too, as if they didn't understand the hex binder used back then.
Otherwise, it's pretty solid - save for the severely warped wood rims.
Straight-pull spokes - and folks thought that was innovative in the 1980's. Hardly:
No luck on getting them to sell, and no - I can't tell you who owns it. Sorry.
-Kurt
I stumbled upon this machine during a job that I've been doing for the last two days; figured I would share the photos here as well:
It's not a Wright Van Cleve, but the tubing, lugs, and "Ferrier" stamped dual plate fork crown seem to imitate this one quite well (save for the geometry), right down to the Ferrier (?) fork crown and blades.
It has a similar seat lug binder on it to some of the other, existing Wright machines; ditto for the rear stays and dropouts. Granted, I'd assume these lugs and tubing were common in their era; hence the similarity to the Wright machine.
Not the Wright badge, obviously:
Pedal threads are stripped, and the headset has been buggered up as well - both fixable with some brass to the headset threads (plus re-threading) and helicoils to the crankset. Someone stuck a sleeve in the seatpost too, as if they didn't understand the hex binder used back then.
Otherwise, it's pretty solid - save for the severely warped wood rims.
Straight-pull spokes - and folks thought that was innovative in the 1980's. Hardly:
No luck on getting them to sell, and no - I can't tell you who owns it. Sorry.
-Kurt
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