Lets see your Balloon Tire Bikes

• Jul 28, 2016

• #421

2jakes

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Doctor Damage said:

Thank goodness for the 'front page' of this site or I would never have known this thread existed. I'm surprised but delighted and happy to see guys restoring old bicycles. Much more interesting than restoring yet another 60s Mustang...

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This hobby has been around for a spell.
Before internet, there was bicycle newsletters that kept me updated on vintage bikes.
Sharing ideas, images & parts for sale with other bike enthusiasts.

Latest project: 1940s Monark.

 

• Oct 9, 2016

• #422

robrinay

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Here's mine - a Dahon Jack I bought cheap at the Lincoln Antiques Fair. It folds in half for stowing in the trunk/boot when I go to fairs and its ideal for cruising along on all surfaces including grass while surveying for 'antiques they don't know the value of' [/URL]

 

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• Nov 6, 2016

• #423

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Thought I’d share this. Very peaceful somehow.

 

• Nov 6, 2016

• #424

52Styleline

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From the 1952 Sears Wishbook, this is what I found under the Christmas tree that year. It carried me many miles over logging roads and survived several spectacular crashes.

 

• Nov 6, 2016

• #425

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J C Higgins bike.
Putting it together from the parts I have found over the years.

 

• Nov 6, 2016

• #426

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52Styleline said:

From the 1952 Sears Wishbook, this is what I found under the Christmas tree that year. It carried me many miles over logging roads and survived several spectacular crashes.

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I love the painted side-pipes on these.

 

• Nov 6, 2016

• #427

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BobHufford said:

I love the painted side-pipes on these.

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The side-pipes on the tank is my favorite
feature about the Higgins bike which I'm
building.
I was fortunate to locate a pair of the original
cast metal pipes from Chestnut Hollow .

 

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