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Wastyn late 20’s early 30’s
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schwinnderella
Wore out three sets of tires already!
Here is a bike sold to me as a Wastyn and I believe it is. Looks like it may have the same fork? Supposedly the bike belonged to Cecil Yates who I believe was a factory Paramount racer. I have no idea if that is true but the hubs do have a CY carved into them that looks to have been done long ago. Hubs are original I believe but laced to newer rims and brake added so it could be used for exercise.
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St33lWh33ls
Look Ma, No Hands!
Most frame builders of this era stick to a pattern, Pop Brennan, Willy Appelhans, Lance Claudel, Joe Kopsky, Louis Goossens, and other six day builders designs were fairly consistent, not so much with the Wastyns. First you have to decide which Wastyn and then check out the myriad of designs they had. A good starting point is Classic Cycles website, the museum page of pre 1940 bikes has several Wastyn bikes and all are different. There is a chrome Wastyn on the page that looks just like a Goossens, not surprising as he was an apprentice there before opening his own shop. I just wonder if Louis Goossens built that particular bike.
As a side note, look at all the Pop Brennan bikes on that page, the frames are nearly identical.
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schwinnderella
Wore out three sets of tires already!
St33lWh33ls
Look Ma, No Hands!
Caber kccomet owns this bike and had a post full of photos I was looking for, it was a good resource, but it seems to be gone now. This bike was listed on EBay at one time and I saved all those photos as well, I need to go through my PC and find them.
St33lWh33ls
Look Ma, No Hands!
Just wanted to say this bike has a real Lance Claudel vibe to it, take a look at this bike on the Classic Cycles website and see what you think. Love the color of your bike, very classy. Does it have a slight green tint or is that just tint reflections in the photo?
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schwinnderella
Wore out three sets of tires already!
Back when this was listed on ebay I posted this video showing the bike bought at an estate sale by the gentleman I believe who sold it on ebay. It was listed for a long time on ebay for a lot more than it was worth but the price kept dropping till it sold.
kccomet
I live for the CABE
your right about wastyns being so varied, they were all over the place in their frames, I've had quite a few over the years and they were all a little different sometimes a lot different. I like how you rattled of some of the great names kopsky, appelhans, brennan, etc of American frame builders. most people have never head of them, and if they have they don't care. these 20s 30s track bikes don't get alot of love in my opinion. I've spent stupid money on some, but most can be bought for the price of a mid level 80s bianchi. I've sold quite a few of my bikes but still have the goossens
alexander55
Finally riding a big boys bike
Another Goossens for comparison.
St33lWh33ls
Look Ma, No Hands!
You have a fantastic collection, plus we both were smart enough to purchase Pop Brennans from Edward Albert.
