Mystery bike..

by **dragnusa** on Tue May 15, 2012 5:12 pm

heres a mystery bike i got yesterday. It has no headbadge but I can see where it had been. Cant find any numbers on it anywhere. Heres what Ive found from the little Ive had a chance to look at it, the wheel set has been replaced as well as the bars and seat and it has red over gray paint on it. now the sprocket seems to just had the ring added to it at some point it has tear drop shapes in the sprocket.

Its going to get reratted anyways just like to get an idea of what a bike was when it was new

by **dragnusa** on Wed May 16, 2012 10:07 pm

Ive been told it may be a cwc frame but I cant find a cwc frame where the stays are like this bike, heres a pick of the stays

and heres a pic of the front fork

by **B607** on Thu May 17, 2012 1:38 am

Kickstand mount on frame says Monark to me. Gary

by **mos6502** on Thu May 17, 2012 3:14 pm

Yeah definitely a Monark frame. Seems to have acquired some later parts though.

by **twowheelfan** on Thu May 17, 2012 3:37 pm

B607 wrote:Kickstand mount on frame says Monark to me. Gary

i agree. also, monark had a data plaque riveted to the underside of the BB with serial/model. so if someone took that off then no numbers.
check for the two little holes underneath should be left to right.

by **dragnusa** on Thu May 17, 2012 6:04 pm

Of course when the stripped it and painted it they removed the tag on the bottom. It does seem to be a monark frame not sure of the year yet. they did a nice rebuild of it but wish they would have worked around the head badge and the vin plate

by **dragnusa** on Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:11 pm

we found these numbers on the inside of the fork today when we was sanding it down. they are 170 81. not sure if they would help date the bike

by **twowheelfan** on Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:31 am

dragnusa wrote:we found these numbers on the inside of the fork today when we was sanding it down. they are 170 81. not sure if they would help date the bike

im of the opinion that the fork is not original to the frame. the forks look schwinn to me. and they made that type fork for years and years and i haven't seen or heard of a number/ serial code for the. forks.

by **dragnusa** on Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:43 pm

since this had been refurbed they probably arent the right forks for the bike but being solid im guessing their atleast from the same era

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