I know Sears sold various brands of their own but what were they all? Also I am wondering about bike model names, because, for example, a J. C. Higgins Flightliner looks like a Sears Spaceliner.
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stephen said:I know Sears sold various brands of their own but what were they all? Also I am wondering about bike model names, because, for example, a J. C. Higgins Flightliner looks like a Sears Spaceliner.
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zaz said:Elgin brand was used by Sears before WWII.
Unfortunately, I can't find the name of Elgin bicycles designers, who made more for bicycle design (with many others) than Schwinn despite all the books glorifying Ignaz brand (and I am a Schwinn addict).
skoda said:(snip)
AMF (American Manufacturing and Foundry), Western Flyer (sold in Western Auto Stores), Murray, Huffy and two others made up the 6 and all of the bies are very similar if not identical. Others might have been or were Free Spirit and Ward's. These bikes were re-badged as a bunch of other hardware/auto store brands and one-offs sold at reigonal chains. It makes for fun, kwirky finds in the midwest anyway. I saw a bike that was exactly like a Western Flyer cruiser at a swap and shop that was called a "Gentlemen's Continental" or something. It was quite smarmy and cool.
hey ..i'm the guy that had the marlin.......it was a starjet made by chain bike co.....the guy that bought it said the front hub was stamped ross.the fish in the guard was same as the ross barracuda.............ParkRNDL said:skoda said:(snip)
AMF (American Manufacturing and Foundry), Western Flyer (sold in Western Auto Stores), Murray, Huffy and two others made up the 6 and all of the bies are very similar if not identical. Others might have been or were Free Spirit and Ward's. These bikes were re-badged as a bunch of other hardware/auto store brands and one-offs sold at reigonal chains. It makes for fun, kwirky finds in the midwest anyway. I saw a bike that was exactly like a Western Flyer cruiser at a swap and shop that was called a "Gentlemen's Continental" or something. It was quite smarmy and cool.
Wasn't Ross part of that group too? I seem to recall Ross bikes having the BMA-6 stickers on the seat tube. And Ross' parent company was Chain Bike Corp., right? In my limited experience, I've seen a few department-store brands that look like rebadged Ross bikes... Coast-to-Coast comes to mind, I've seen a few Apollos with the Coast-to-Coast name on them. And I have a girls' banana seat musclebike with a Starflite headbadge that I believe is a Ross product. It says Polo Bike on the guard, and I swear that back in the day I saw Ross bikes with the same name in the same style and graphic on the guard... also, there's a guy on the Schwinn board that has a Marlin musclebike that looks for all the world like a Ross Barracuda. Wonder if Ross ever made anything for Sears...
--rick
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