Well 3 more bikes,,,,,wow,,,,take a look,,any idea of years
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Hey there Banana Seat Brian, I have the same rack for my higgins and I can tell its missin somethin, i just dont know what, could i trouble you to send/post pics of the underside and rear views of it? Thanks in advance for your troubles. Heres mine,
....and if ya got the camera out already....pic's from inside the tank .... i got my lights workin but i cant make the horn buzz ... i know it can(hooked directly to a battery) but i think im missin some wires. thanks again!
Brian, your JCH is a 1958 or 9, the only years they used that style guard on the Flightliner. (I just checked the Elgin/JC Higgins/Hawthorne book. The other two are mid sixties. Chrome, they had a few variations on the rack tailights, many had twin red lenses that were kinda pointy. I think they match the twin headlite tank models. There were some others that are kinda hard to make out in the book-photocopies of catalog pages. Some racks didn't have anything back there. ~Adam
I bought most of mine on ebay. I also got most of the commercially published bike books from a used book site called Alibris. The NBJ series of books are spiral bound. There's Monark, Colson, Dayton/Huffman, and Shelby books. NBJ is "Newsletter By John", one of the earliest vintage bike newsletters. There's also "Introduction to Classic Bicycles", which has a LOT of great info, including headbadges by manufacturer, and also Columbia and Monark serial #'s. The Elgin/JCH/Hawth book is by James Hurd & T.A. Gordon, they also have pre and postwar Schwinn books. Your LBS may be able to get some of these, as I've seen them in the J & B Importers catalogs. The NBJ books are available on ebay from SM2501 aka Scott McCaskey of The Cabe. There's also 'Evolution of the Bicycle, vols. 1 & 2, but there's a LOT of pics of incorrect and misdated bikes in there! BUT, there are also a lot of old ads which aren't in the other books. All of these are how I got my mad skillz on old bikes!
~Adam
