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Im hoping someone can help identify this springer fork. I know it is NOT original to the bicycle as I bought it years ago in EBay as just the fork. Seems to fit this 26" Murray but Firestone pretty well but I'd like to know the origin. Thanks in advance.

Today was the annual fall swap meet here in Minnesota. I picked up two bicycles at the swap. This is one of them. I know it is an Elgin Falcon or Blackhawk. Due to the repaint and missing parts I don't think I can specify which model exactly it is. Any information regarding what year it is or...

I have a friend without an Ebay/ Paypal account. Ever once in a while he asks me to buy something for him with my account and then he pays me back later. Recently he asked me to buy about $45 worth of motorcycle parts for him. When he came yo pick them up he asked me if I would be interested in...

I picked this up today. It had been on CL locally for about a month but the seller was very hard to communicate with. I finally got her to agree to a time to meet up and came home with this rusty prize. The down tube is actually separated at the bottom and the crank bearings are rusted to the...

A friend of mine went 'up nort' for the weekend and picked this up for me from an antique/ junk store. It's obviously been cobbled together with pretty much every imaginable incorrect part but I think it still has good bones. The friend that got it for me has been in the bicycle business for...

I was browsing CL yesterday and I happened to see a picture of this bicycle for sale at an estate sale near my house. They had it priced crazy high $450 :13: but because it was close I figured it might be worth a look. In my mind the kind of person that would have saved an old bicycle for 60...

I saw this one listed last night on CL. I really didn't need another girl's bike but there was no price listed in the ad and I had to know so I emailed them about it. The fact that it was only about a mile from my place didn't hurt either. The owner sent me a response saying that it needed...

Stopped at estate sale yesterday. As always I make my first destination the garage. To my delight there was an old, ladies Schwinn sitting in the corner on a pair of flat tires. It had a bent fork and the handlebars were off a newer BMX style bike but I was still interested. Unfortunately it was...

There was a neighborhood garage sale yesterday. I was out early but still got scooped repeatedly by some older fella with a ponytail driving around in a Subaru. :mad: I hit most of the sales on foot and came home with nothing very interesting. I was pretty bummed and even went out on the bike...

A friend picked this up at a garage sale on Friday. A few hours later we worked out a deal and it was mine. I have a couple other DX models but this is my first one with a tank. I had another later partial DX that I am going to pirate the handlebars and stem from. I also had another...

I picked this one up Wednesday evening. Tuesday night a friend tipped me off to the ad on CL. Curiously it was listed as, 'Vintage Lady Schwinn with horn tube'. I emailed the seller right away and told him if it was still for sale I would gladly pay his $40 asking price. The next day he called...

A week ago on Sunday I grabbed this off CL. Turned out to be a fellow RRB member and a really nice guy. 1960's Hawthorne. Already got it repainted and riding but no pictures of that yet. Seller also happened to have an exact match frame to replace a Monark frame I butchered years ago and...

I've owned many old bikes over the years but I'd never owned a men's tank bike. I really wanted one. I came across this bike a few months ago listed locally on Craigslist. Less than 24 hours after seeing the ad it was mine. The backstory on the bike is kind of strange. When I called the...

I spent the morning today hitting a big (60 +) string of neighborhood garage sales. I didn't find one old bike for sale or even one visible in anyone's garages. I was pretty disappointed. Then on the way home I stopped at an estate sale less than a mile from my house and found this...

...on my bike. :oops: I bought this bike without knowing much about it. Over the last couple of weeks I've discovered nearly every part on the bike is incorrect to it. Not a big deal really, but I happen to like the look of he original bike better. Someone mentioned that they thought this...

Got all of these in the last week. I originally picked this one up to use as a parts bike. However after looking at it for a week I'm starting to think of keeping it. Was advertised as a '1950's Schwinn'. Went to check it out in person and found it to be a 1965 Deluxe Hollywood. I...

Picked this Hawthorne up off of CL locally today. Fork is bent, fenders are probably not original, chainguard included seems to not be original and the handlebars are bent. That, plus all of the usual things that are typically wrong on a 60 year old bike and Naturally I just had to have it...

Over the weekend a friend of mine bought this for me at a garage sale. Initially we could tell many of the parts on the bike were not original to it. The hand grips were generic looking, the seat was obviously not right, there were at least three coats of paint on it, the pedals were wrong and...

I'm not a huge trike fan. However, as a bit of a collector (read 'hoarder') I knew I would eventually have to acquire one. The seed has been planted for quite awhile. Last summer I went to several swap meets with a friend that is a bike mechanic. He sagely talked me out of buying several...

Just plucked this one out of the back of our shop metal scrapper's truck. He had this and a '74 Raleigh Ladies bike that he sold me both for $20. By the end of my shift I sold the Raleigh off to a co-worker for the $10 I had into it and was left with this for a cool $10. I had thought about...