Recent content by thetwentyoneballoons

Please carefully read my post and the links to the resources given to gain understanding of how this frame style was specified and named over the few years it was made. Untangling Ward's Hawthorne bicycle models and makers is confusing and takes some study but it is a rewarding quest. I'm trying...

Great find, but not every W/H frame of this style is a Zep. A Zep is a Zep because of it's high spec equipment: tank, locking fork, different rack, special lighting etc.. Besides the top model Zep, this frame was variously offered as a Streamlined Sports, Comet and others. As far as the year...

1947 GENERAL badged Monark Silver King Model 7008, 26" balloon tire frame, 18.5" s.t., some squashing to tube section at kickstand mounting. Frame $75 Crank $35 193? attributed to Cleveland Welding Co., 26" balloon tire frame & crank wall art bike carcass, 18.75" s.t., great patina heavily...

Columbia postwar straight bar 26" balloon tire frame and fork w/18" s.t., only marking is small VV on bottom bracket, repairable slight bend to left fork leg and twists to lower fork ends, nice green/rust patina. All parts original to bike. Frame & fork $75 fender set orig $40 crank orig 1/2"...

Hello all, Please PM me if you have interest in purchasing or a question as opposed to posting on the thread. I update the ads as items are sold and I need the space below to add new items. I prefer paypal, but will also accept US Postal Service money orders only. Shipping is additional, but I...

Hello to all RRB! New guy here, mostly into pre-war ballon stuff but I am interested in doing some projects where I can feel comfortable relaxing the correctness standards a bit, thinking maybe the right environment is here. I found RRB coming up alot in the various bike searches I run and was...

Thanks Luke got it!

Hi I need to contact Smoopy anyone have his number? Thanks, Nate