Let's see your Cleveland Welding bicycles!
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After three years of this bike sitting in the basement collecting dust ....
I finally redid it for my 9 year old son's Christmas gift
I finally redid it for my 9 year old son's Christmas gift
Thought I might as well throw out a photo of my 1953 Hawthorne. Purchased from the original owner. Only seat and bars are replacements, everything else is original, even the Riverside Mate whitewalls.
http://www.nemontel.net/~gbradbury/53hawth.JPG
http://www.nemontel.net/~gbradbury/53hawth.JPG
I've Got 5 for you guys and gals
1954 CWC built unknown(missing headbadge)
1940 CWC built Wards Hawthorne(my grandmothers first bike)
1938 CWC built Wards Hawthorne
1946-47 CWC Roadmaster Formerly a mens bike now its a girls bike :roll:
1948-49 Cwc built Uknown(missing headbadge but has vertical screw holes like a roadmaster only the frame,crank,and chain ring are CWC the rest is Monark)
1954 CWC built unknown(missing headbadge)
1940 CWC built Wards Hawthorne(my grandmothers first bike)
1938 CWC built Wards Hawthorne
1946-47 CWC Roadmaster Formerly a mens bike now its a girls bike :roll:
1948-49 Cwc built Uknown(missing headbadge but has vertical screw holes like a roadmaster only the frame,crank,and chain ring are CWC the rest is Monark)
Here is my Roadmaster, My build is almost done, I decided to go with VO Belleville's with this bike. I ordered them today, and I will be using them with some coke bottle grips, I borrowed these bars from my 66 Collegiate. I also ordered a layback seat post from the sportsman flyer website. I took these pictures today after coming back from a cruise to the beach just as the sun began to set, 74 degrees in February! Gotta love California.
At the beach, Pictures re not the greatest but hey..
At the beach, Pictures re not the greatest but hey..
If anyone has a link to look up serial numbers to determine year etc of my Hiawatha bike, I sure would appreciate it... Dan
birdmannn101 said:If anyone has a link to look up serial numbers to determine year etc of my Hiawatha bike, I sure would appreciate it... Dan
Post the number and we should be able to decode it. That one is 55 and newer
1959firearrow said:I've Got 5 for you guys and gals
1954 CWC built unknown(missing headbadge)
1940 CWC built Wards Hawthorne(my grandmothers first bike)
1938 CWC built Wards Hawthorne
1946-47 CWC Roadmaster Formerly a mens bike now its a girls bike :roll:
1948-49 Cwc built Uknown(missing headbadge but has vertical screw holes like a roadmaster only the frame,crank,and chain ring are CWC the rest is Monark)
Do you have a picture of the head badge screw holes from that 1938 wards made hawthorne?
Sadly it is missing the headbadge but its the same as the 1940 girls Wards Hawthorne if you want to pm me your email and I will take some pics and send you a link.
Not 100% sure if this is CW, but was told by someone here that it might be. I'll put it up and if anyone can verify, it would be nice. Serial#: H W 3 1 7 8 6 I'll remove it from this thread, if it's not CW.
Found in the Thrift store. will go to get it soon.
Found in the Thrift store. will go to get it soon.
Possibly1946-47? I'm not entirely sure but I thought the H was either 46-47 Nice CW built western flyer hope you get it before someone else does.
ct_old said:Not 100% sure if this is CW, but was told by someone here that it might be. I'll put it up and if anyone can verify, it would be nice. Serial#: H W 3 1 7 8 6 I'll remove it from this thread, if it's not CW.
Found in the Thrift store. will go to get it soon.
Cleveland Welding serial numbers had one letter followed by 5 numbers, so I don't think its CW.
I missed that W sorry for the confusion! Honestly thought it was a cw too till I looked at the rear stays and dropouts. But I'm also a newb.
Here's some old pic's of a couple CWC projects I'm working on.. The blue one is a Hiawatha, 46' I believe. The yellow is a Roadmaster and I am unsure of the year, it's serial # is A37190 AC with the w inside of the C.
ratina said:birdmannn101 said:If anyone has a link to look up serial numbers to determine year etc of my Hiawatha bike, I sure would appreciate it... Dan
Post the number and we should be able to decode it. That one is 55 and newer
The serial number is A22235 with a 550 stamped sideways to the serial number
The NBHAA said, "What you have there is a CWC/AMF frame made in 1955. There is no evidence from what we see here that it was a Hiawatha. And the little ears on the rear of the frame are nothing at all unusual for that time period. There were on thousands and thousands of bicycles they made."
So now I don't know what kind of bicycle I have....Dan
That 0 is a C with a w inside, denoting Cleveland Welding. Those dropouts are common, so that probably is a Hiawatha, made by CWC in 1955.
