Columbia šŸŖ CamelBack - ā€˜21 2n1

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If I actually continue on this course Iā€™d like blow my Westfield Columbia Camelback apart and rebuild it.
Maybe it gets pretty instead of pretty rusty, just short of a restoration. Have a new set of bars for it one way or the other.
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Iā€™m including the original find and build link from a few years back.
Rear wheel needs rebuilding and some parts will disappear. Might get paint I need to explore the existing paint.

Previous general build linkā€¦
https://ratrodbikes.com/threads/westfield-built-camelback-1934-maybe-1921.107463/page-1
Any objections???
 
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New year,new start,new build... Step right in, and start the mayhem...
 
Based on serial numbers and geometry this camelback could have been a 1921 based on the M8 serial number and would have had 28ā€ tires. The ā€œMā€ prefixed serial number was again used in 1934 where both 26ā€ and 28ā€ wheel models were available. The coffin crank would have been incorrect for ā€˜21.
There are comments and discussions in the old find/build thread attached in 1st post.
I need to get this bike out of storage and haul it home.
 
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Thoughts are rolling inā€¦
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That front suspension is a new one for me. This should be an interesting build!

RaT oN~!
 
That front suspension is a new one for me. This should be an interesting build!

RaT oN~!
Goes back to 1889 by Pope Manufacturing Co.
 
And so it beginsā€¦maybe, depends on what cooperates in coming loose.
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Well itā€™s pretty much apart, lots of cleanup ahead. The paint is pretty much gone except for front triangle. So I either leave it ratty or strip it, primer and paint. Iā€™d always sorta liked the gold color paint with black trim, weā€™ll see. I guess itā€™s a blank slate now.
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I had painted the front rim and respoked the wheel. I need to go through the rear hub and redo spokes to match the front, the rear hub doesnā€™t have much chrome left.
 
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Well itā€™s pretty much apart, lots of cleanup ahead. The paint is pretty much gone except for front triangle. So I either leave it ratty or strip it, primer and paint. Iā€™d always sorta liked the gold color paint with black trim, weā€™ll see. I guess itā€™s a blank slate now.View attachment 231134View attachment 231135View attachment 231136View attachment 231137View attachment 231138View attachment 231139View attachment 231140
I had painted the front rim and respoked the wheel. I need to go through the rear hub and redo spokes to match the front, the rear hub doesnā€™t have much chrome left.
Looks like it all came apart easily! Great start!
 
Iā€™ve proceeded with roughing out the design on the fly. Mocking up the concept and will fine tune materials as I go if it looks like it will work. The pieces I picked up for the axle bar are too short so back for some 3/16ā€ flat bar.
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I stopped for some flat bar on way back from lunch. The basic concept is in rough mock-up form. Iā€™m on hold with the compression springs at this point. I need to figure out how much rake I actually want to add so the front wheel, it is just sitting on the axle bars, and when the springs show up Iā€™ll establish limit pins locations. At some point Iā€™ll do some static tests for flex and stability before even thinking about any test riding/coastingā€¦
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