I have a snell bicycle in rusted shape. It has 28" wooden rims. It has adjustable butterfly handle bars. It has a brass new departure coaster brake arm. The coaster brake says," NEW DEPARTURE BELL COMPANY." I found that new departure changed its name in 1901 to new departure manufacturing...
This has :
Aluminum Rims- Malan with some kind of burlap material for rim strips
Hubs- Sturmey archer drum brakes
Seat- Hulshof Leather Saddle
Brakes- Sturmey archer
Cranks- lusce 61?
Chain ring- ?
Small messenger bag- Levrier
I can't find anything on the malan rims, hulshof saddle, the cranks...
The tire size on the rixe is 26 x 1.75. It has semperit tires which I can't find for sale and I'm unsure if they're original or not. Thanks for all the responses so far.
Just picked these two bikes up last week. The green one is a twin top tube rixe with a two tone kind of paint sound the neck. It's pretty light with aluminum rims.
The muscle bike only has a partcial emblem on the front that says," Olympic Deluxe." It needs some work as far as cables, tires...