Cleveland Welding Springer

[fryguy]

Just picked up a few bikes on a recent hunt. I picked up a couple complete prewar ladies bikes, a Keystone and a Higgins Colorflow. I also picked up a cool Clevend Welding Company frame with a skiptooth crank and really cool springer front end. Trying to date this frame as there is a 6 digit serial number on the bottom of the frame, 19665. Anybody have any reference material that can help me out? Here are a few pics of the Cleveland. Looks like it was originally a green color but some body has painted over it with a light blue latex that seems pretty easy to flake and peal off.

 

[thesuicideride]

nice find man! thats a jc higgins beehive springer minus the front truss rods and rockers.

 

[thesuicideride]

parts for them pop up every now and a again. good candidate for a makeshift springer! 8)

 

[fryguy]

So you are saying the front end is not the stock match for the Cleveland frame?

 

[2manybikes]

So you are saying the front end is not the stock match for the Cleveland frame?

Nope...Sill a cool piece though

 

[fryguy]

Cool, thanks for the info. Now I won't feel bad swapping that front end onto my JC Higgins rat bike :lol:

 

[Road Master]

I see it has a Roadmaster badge so assuming it is a CWC frame there should be a letter in front of those 5 digits that you will need to date it. Phil (rms37) would be your guy to date it correctly.

 

[fryguy]

So you say a letter should precede those numbers? I'll check that again. Do you know what letter denotes which years?



Fryguy