BFGoodrich road bike frame year? ... finished pictures 9/29

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I picked this up yesterday at the Larz Anderson swap/show for $20. Guy said it's a prewar road frame, but as Joe (yeshoney) pointed out, the rear dropouts don't look prewar. Guy also said it originally had 26x1-3/8 wheels and tires. It appears it will take 700c wheels and tires, so I think I'm going to make a vintage single speed track type bike with it, possibly skip tooth. I like the fork. Would like to get that old bronze Yale lock off the stem w/o cutting it off. Skip says a lock shop can make a key for it (?)

Can anyone shed some light on this?

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Re: BFGoodrich road bike frame year?

I don't know who or when was the first w/forward facing dropouts, but other details of the bike, like that cool fork, smoothed joints and how the dropouts are fitted say pretty high quality build for a tire maker label. It looks a lot like an early Schwinn to me. Very cool. :wink:
 
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Its a Schwinn Built bike, Looks like a Victory bike, produced during the war since the bearing cups are blacked out and the chain ring looks black. Schwinn used a fish hook drop out on their lightweight bikes before the war.
 
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thanks for the input guys, I really appreciate it. Now I'm even more glad I bought it. Off to the internets to see if I can find some pictures of what it looked like new...
 
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Ian,

The Schwinn/B F Goodrich connection makes sense and so do the nice tube joints being Schwinn quality. Black out sprocket is a good clue. Missed that even in person. Maybe the pics picked it up better.

PS the Columbia frame i got i was able to ID as a 1922, WAHOO! Oldest bike I have!

Joe
 
Re: BFGoodrich road bike frame year?

1922... sweet.

Big Pants and I are already hashing out a design for fabing an early adjustable track style stem for the BFG. Thinking of buying these brown track wheels, removing the decals and maybe hand painting wood grain on them...

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spin a bmx freewheel onto them and file down every other tooth on the cog...
 
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What about that really cool skip tooth rear sprocket you bought?? At least post a pic of it.

Those wheels would be the shizzle yo!

Joe

"spin a bmx freewheel onto them and file down every other tooth on the cog..."
 
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That thing is cool and yeah, the sprocket is awesome! If that was for a normal hub I would have bought it.
 
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updates...

did not go with the brown wheelset. Bought a coaster brake 700c wheelset in flat black instead. No progress on home made adjustable stem yet, may use one pictured temporarily. Have a set of black drop bars on the way. Going to grind off every other tooth on the hub sprocket so I can run a skiptooth chain.

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Re: BFGoodrich road bike frame year?

It's an interesting looking bike. I like it. In fact the more I look at the pics the more I need to go find a frame like it. Very nice!
Sean
 
Re: BFGoodrich road bike frame year?

The progress looks great! What bars are you going to use? I think a set of soma major taylor bars would be perfect for that bike.
 
Re: BFGoodrich road bike frame year?

^^ they would, you're absolutely right. but i went totally over budget with the wheelset ($160), so for now it is getting a set of beat up black ITM drop bars.

i need a narly set of vintage quill pedals too.
 
Re: BFGoodrich road bike frame year?

Wow, that's looking great! I would really like to have that frame... really sweet looking so far!
 
Re: BFGoodrich road bike frame year?

^^ those are pretty nice. doesn't say how wide they are though. could shoot them an email i suppose.
 

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