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Very classic! I like how smooth the dropout/rear stay joints are. It flows very well. Can't wait to see this beast get built up!

Beautiful! It is going to clean up really well. I don't think finding a headlight lens should be too much of a problem, but finding a nice taillight unit (if it had the taillight and not just reflectors) might be tough. I think they rotted out pretty frequently because the louvers in the rack...

I am no expert, but this would be $.02: I don't think it is CCM/Canadian. It's not lugged, has a one piece crank (as opposed to the three piece cottered setup most foreign bikes have) I think 20's is probably the right vintage... though I guess 30's isn't out of place either... I would guess...

Nice haul! I love those old Sunshine cruisers. It's very Shelby-ish! If only they were around in the U.S. :cry: At least, the downtube and front toptube welds look strong and well done. I think with some good hand filing you could clean those off like nothing ever happened. As for the rear...

That. Is. BEAUTIFUL. Pm sent about handlebars.

Nothing unnatural for me in the bb yet. One time I was trying to get some handlebars separated from a stem... got the stem to let go of the center bulge of the bar after much trouble, cut the grip off to free the bars all the way, and some old wet cigarettes came out. They landed with a plop on...

The bb (bottom bracket) would be the cylindrical piece of the frame where the crank is mounted :wink:

That's a classy little muscle bike. I like the black and white color combo. I think it should be kept as is, just cleaned up and it should probably be given some new shoes :wink:

It's a beaut! :mrgreen: Compound + wax + new fat tires would make this gem gleam.

Those are some fine forks. They might be worth posting on a vintage moped/motorbike site, I bet someone could ID them pretty fast. As far as I know, they never came on bicycles, originally but they sure do look great on them now :mrgreen:

This is a bit off topic, and I apologize. I don't *think* Raleigh ever made bikes for the Sears name. As Cameron said, Puch did; any foreign looking Sears bikes are probably Puch made. (Unrelated factoid, I believe Puch also made mopeds). Cameron is also right on this bike being a Columbia.

Cman and scrumblero make good points. Still, I'm having major deja vu. I feel like I remember a post before about a Raleigh fork just like this. It might have been a post by Wildcat..? I don't know, but it might be worth asking him. I wish I could remember for sure...

There may or may not be some how-to threads on cleaning up paint, it would be worth searching around for. I am certain that if you ask around you will get plenty of input. :mrgreen: I have had good luck cleaning everything bike related with "Simple Green" solution.

I hope you keep the paint- I love the colors, and the thing is spotless! :mrgreen: My guess would be that the chainguard, handlebars, seat, and sissy are non stock. I think they are about the right age for the bike, though... In any case it is super cool! :mrgreen:

That's mighty nice 8) What paint did you use (I am assuming it was rattle can...) ? I love the colors!

Re: The Huffman Build you don't want to miss(Best Day Ever 1-22) A lot of rear steering Colson tandems actually had a skip tooth cog beneath the bearing race... the set of handlebars for the rider in the back had a functional steer tube setup with another cog, and a connector chain made for...

That 5 bar is most definitely among the coolest period frames :wink: ...And a chrome 26" AMF frame? Can't argue with that either. It's a slick looking rig. They should both make nice projects...

The dropouts look a bit Shelby-ish to me. I *think* the lugged bb joints are also a Shelby thing... and the bottom bracket cups look like those from the Shelby bikes I've had. (Shelby did seem to use their own / different BB cups... not that they don't take the same bearing sizes, I don't know...

Cool fillet work at the top tube / seat tube joint. I'm pretty sure it's a Huffman.

I think that's an Evans product (I believe that brand overtook the Colson name sometime after Evans wheel goods bought out the Colson bike division...) but I could be wrong on that.