Need help with IDin' 2 bikes I just picked up, any help is appreciated.
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Hey all, hope everyone had a great Christmas and a safe New Years. Well I picked up a couple of bike yesterday.
1. One is a tandem only frame and forks seem correct, no badging and too many layers of old and fresh rattle can to see any serial #'s. Has boys front /ladies rear configuration, front entry rear stays. It has two tubes one is the front seat tube and right behind is the rear handlebar tube, it would use another stem to locate the handlebars, non integrated seatpost clamps. front has the swooping twin bars like a phantom that extend all the way to the rear seat tube. I know it is pretty generalized in description, but if anyone has any information or a link to pictures that might identify a maker it would make the restoration more authentic.
2. The second is again only a frame but is also a mystery. It is a boys straightbar but has again front entry rear stays. The descending seat stays are pinched at the axle stays but at the seat post they are not welded but instead the tubes are flattened and rounded and have a hole thru them. They form the seat clamp. The rear fender brace is not tubular but is flat and curved. Not sure if the fork is original but is the blade type with no provision for mounting a front fender. It has the builtin struss guides on the crown of the fork and the bottom truss rod ends are welded to the bottom of the fork not extending all the way to the bottom to be cinched by the axle nuts. Also the ends of forks are not notched to allow an axle to be mounted, although there are holes for an axle on the ends they are quite small as well. On the headtube struss bracket the upper rods join together to form a thread end that goes thru the bracket and is topped by what is a wing nut looking thing no thru hole it has a rounded top.There is no badging or marks on either frame. Thought the last frame was still worth saving as it was a straightbar. The pics are the first 7 pictures in the album. Thanks again and hope to hear from ya'll soon.. Mo in Clovis, CA.
http://s864.photobucket.com/albums/ab20 ... C00441.jpg
Hey all, hope everyone had a great Christmas and a safe New Years. Well I picked up a couple of bike yesterday.
1. One is a tandem only frame and forks seem correct, no badging and too many layers of old and fresh rattle can to see any serial #'s. Has boys front /ladies rear configuration, front entry rear stays. It has two tubes one is the front seat tube and right behind is the rear handlebar tube, it would use another stem to locate the handlebars, non integrated seatpost clamps. front has the swooping twin bars like a phantom that extend all the way to the rear seat tube. I know it is pretty generalized in description, but if anyone has any information or a link to pictures that might identify a maker it would make the restoration more authentic.
2. The second is again only a frame but is also a mystery. It is a boys straightbar but has again front entry rear stays. The descending seat stays are pinched at the axle stays but at the seat post they are not welded but instead the tubes are flattened and rounded and have a hole thru them. They form the seat clamp. The rear fender brace is not tubular but is flat and curved. Not sure if the fork is original but is the blade type with no provision for mounting a front fender. It has the builtin struss guides on the crown of the fork and the bottom truss rod ends are welded to the bottom of the fork not extending all the way to the bottom to be cinched by the axle nuts. Also the ends of forks are not notched to allow an axle to be mounted, although there are holes for an axle on the ends they are quite small as well. On the headtube struss bracket the upper rods join together to form a thread end that goes thru the bracket and is topped by what is a wing nut looking thing no thru hole it has a rounded top.There is no badging or marks on either frame. Thought the last frame was still worth saving as it was a straightbar. The pics are the first 7 pictures in the album. Thanks again and hope to hear from ya'll soon.. Mo in Clovis, CA.
