Ot-bike photos

[jamesadams]

Do i have anything?http://www430.pair.com/p15d24/mopar_forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=237http://www430.pair.com/p15d24/mopar_forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=23767&stc=1&d=129582526966&stc=1&d=1295825200Went to the farm today,i have more photos.The ones i took of the badges did not turn out. Tell me i have the holy grail of old bikes-or more like my luck, scrap iron. Thanks

[Dave72dt]

You'll make me feel bad if they are really valuable collectors. I tossed a couple like the first one and 3 or 4 like the second plus some other equally old and rusty versions about 5 years ago. Actually felt good to have them gone and the area cleaned up.

[greg g]

You need to call the guy on American Pickers, seems he is nutso regarding 2 wheeled conveyence. From the look of the way the seat springs are fashioned I'm guessing late 30's early 40's. Don't know the brand, but the handle bars on the boys bike look like ape hagers from the 60's.

[41/53dodges]

whatever they are, i can see by #1 its skiptooth, kinda rare. kinda a stupid design is what it is!

[jamesadams]

The blue one is an old schwinn,the photos are a reply to my older post. I rode both of these in my youth,yes they are apehangers installed by yours truly.

From a little research i have done,the schwinn is 30s,i have at least 2 schwinn frames. I don't know what the brown one is.The peaked fenders are different. When i was growing up,i never owned a new bike.My cousin and i rode bikes every day thru fields, woods and gravel roads,beating them severly. When one broke,it hit the parts pile,that came from dumps,freebies,hand me downs,and trades,and a new one was constructed. The schwinns were freebies. While cleaning up while we are selling all of our steel to the Chinese, i got to wondering if anybody restores old bikes. Maybe i can find that missing part for some lucky soul. We ALL understand that!

[jamesadams]

Oh yeah,the rear 10-speed wheel was a design from engineering in previous post-you make do with what you have when you are raised on a hog farm.

[greg g]

We did much the same, might have even created the 1st mountain bike. transfered a front sprocket from a 20 inch bike to the rear axle of a 26, lengthened the chain and created a granny geared cow path bikes. even tried to make some knobby tires by carving chunks out of the old balloon tires that had a pattern that looked like chain links.

And in winter we fashioned tire chains out of furnace chain and wire wrpped around the spokes. Used to do long rides on the frozen creeks and swamps in the area.

Like you we collected parts bikes, build up some beaters and have demolitioin derbies.

one kid got real good with the spoke wrench and would relace and true wheels, which was a handy skill.

maybe this will help a bit

http://www.nostalgic.net/

[HanksB3B]

I wonder what they are worth?

Hank

[ggdad1951]

You need to call the guy on American Pickers, seems he is nutso regarding 2 wheeled conveyence.

my thought exactally!

You'll make me feel bad if they are really valuable collectors. I tossed a couple like the first one and 3 or 4 like the second plus some other equally old and rusty versions about 5 years ago. Actually felt good to have them gone and the area cleaned up.

We had a pile of old bike frames on the farm, along with a pile of other old stuff my dad liked to scrounge (brass/bronze door hinges, glass handle door knobs whathaveyou) and about 15 years back they sold it all for scrap to clean up the farm...I wonder what that'd all be worth now to a collector/restorer.....sigh....