A buddy of mine has had several old cruiser bikes for years but has no time to work on them. For months I've been pestering him to at least let me go thru them and get them ridable (at no charge even!).
Anyway, a couple of weeks ago he calls and says he wants me to ' lightly restore' or clean up his Spaceliner, in return he'd give me a Rollfast (which I haven't seen yet) and this one (which I picked up last night).
It's a 26" late '50s or early '60s Western Flyer (Cosmic Flyer) single speed (no kickback). .
It appears to be in really good shape and almost entirely complete. The only problems I see so far is the cracked up chrome shroud (and missing lenses) for the headlight and the broken knob on the headlight switch.
It's got a lot of really cool details, like the chaingaurd and the striping on the rack. Not sure what my plans are for it right now (other than yank the pedals), I'm going to be a good guy and work on his Space Liner first.
Anyway, a couple of weeks ago he calls and says he wants me to ' lightly restore' or clean up his Spaceliner, in return he'd give me a Rollfast (which I haven't seen yet) and this one (which I picked up last night).
It's a 26" late '50s or early '60s Western Flyer (Cosmic Flyer) single speed (no kickback). .
It appears to be in really good shape and almost entirely complete. The only problems I see so far is the cracked up chrome shroud (and missing lenses) for the headlight and the broken knob on the headlight switch.
It's got a lot of really cool details, like the chaingaurd and the striping on the rack. Not sure what my plans are for it right now (other than yank the pedals), I'm going to be a good guy and work on his Space Liner first.