41' Monark Silver King Rocket

[piercer99]

So I am presently working in Atlanta, went out exploring Sunday and found this at an antique shop in Marietta.

They wanted more than I paid for it, let's just say it got them down to under a hundred on it. It was displayed as a mid 50's chicago built american bike, complete.

Got it back to the hotel I am at, put a new tube in the front tire and it rides really well for a 75 year old.

I think this one is a keeper. It is going to need a lot of work, but that will wait until I get back to Texas.

 

[G-Matt]

Good one there even has some jeweled goodies [emoji1305]


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[piercer99]

those coke bottle grips are in excellent shape. the tires are like new, although not original, they are from the late 50's. amazing what keeping a bike in the basement does for preserving it.

 

[American Vintage Bicycle Supply]

I showed up at Treasure Dawgs the day after you picked this up. They said you had came just the day before. I saw it on CL. Great find.

 

[piercer99]

I have done a couple things to it. Added the tank from a '54 I bought, it looks right. After riding it a lot, the sidewalls of the tires started to crack a bit, guess to be expected, so I put a set of Duro Beach Bums on it. Just recovered the seat with leather and got a drop stand for it, although the last two are not in photos yet.

I had oiled the new departure coaster, and it works great. All in all this bike is a blast to ride, really fast also.

 

[horsefarmer]

Very Nice! Tank really looks cool! I love the tread on the Beach Bum Duros got a couple sets myself not whitewalls tho.

 

[piercer99]

Very Nice! Tank really looks cool! I love the tread on the Beach Bum Duros got a couple sets myself not whitewalls tho.

I found this set of Beach Bum's on craigslist, a bike shop south of Atlanta was clearing out some products and these were brand new, still with the Duro packaging on them, for 20 dollars for the pair. I wasted no time making that drive.