Hey I'm curious what you guys think of this bike. It was brought to Georgia from Michigan 20 years ago and has been sitting in a shed ever since. Until yesterday. American pickers and all that.
It's apparently a circa 1940 Hawthorne - but it has caliper brakes, a three speed hub with single pitch chain, 26x1 3/8 wheels and three top tubes, lol Well two top tubes and a middle tube, or a lower tube, i dunno! I'll get better pics than the ones I'm posting here tonight.
http://perpetualmotionbikes.com/bike/ here are three pics. Hey, look at the GT Performer hanging by the window in the first pic!
I looked pretty hard on the net and didn't see a pic of one quite like this. It has fork stabilizers set very wide and the caliper brake is between them. It has dropout adjusters in the rear.
Obviously a prewar bike fitted with post war parts, but something is just curious about the way it was made - apparently at the factory.
Whaddya think? Maybe a military bike that had a heavy ammo can fitted to it? Maybe some type of reinforced delivery bike?
It's apparently a circa 1940 Hawthorne - but it has caliper brakes, a three speed hub with single pitch chain, 26x1 3/8 wheels and three top tubes, lol Well two top tubes and a middle tube, or a lower tube, i dunno! I'll get better pics than the ones I'm posting here tonight.
http://perpetualmotionbikes.com/bike/ here are three pics. Hey, look at the GT Performer hanging by the window in the first pic!
I looked pretty hard on the net and didn't see a pic of one quite like this. It has fork stabilizers set very wide and the caliper brake is between them. It has dropout adjusters in the rear.
Obviously a prewar bike fitted with post war parts, but something is just curious about the way it was made - apparently at the factory.
Whaddya think? Maybe a military bike that had a heavy ammo can fitted to it? Maybe some type of reinforced delivery bike?