Spaceliner / Flightliner etc. ID guide

[Toeslider]

I will post some pictures of my own later, or if a thread similar to this exists, someone PM me the link and this one can be deleted.

I have a men's and a women's Spaceliner, they look to be close to the same year and similarly equipped, but I noticed the chain guards are completely different, yet look original to the bikes? Can someone post pictures of chain guards and the years they were used if known, as well as fenders, tanks, etc? I would like to get the men's as original as possible, but not part out the ladies if the parts aren't correct for the mans bike.

 

[Jpromo]

Somebody did compile the be-all end-all guide for them! I can't recall if i was on here or the Cabe.. I think he's a member on both.

Edit: Found it. Tis on the other site, by BrentP.
http://thecabe.com/vbulletin/showth...ars-Spaceliner-Reference&highlight=spaceliner

 

[Toeslider]

Thanks, I'll check it out. Just recently became a member over there, keep forgetting about it.

 

[B607]

Yep, when you hang out here all the time it's real easy to forget the CABE. Gary

 

[Toeslider]

That link is a good reference, but I can't seem to figure out how to keyword search the gallery over there, if its even possible. I'm more after pictures of specific parts for specific years/models.

 

[BrentP]

Somebody did compile the be-all end-all guide for them! I can't recall if i was on here or the Cabe.. I think he's a member on both.

Edit: Found it. Tis on the other site, by BrentP.
http://thecabe.com/vbulletin/showth...ars-Spaceliner-Reference&highlight=spaceliner

Yep... that would be me that compiled the Spaceliner reference over on The CABE. Glad you found it useful.

 

[kingfish254]

I knew that this post was out there somewhere, but I couldn't find it when I created this thread
:arrow: viewtopic.php?f=62&t=71757&hilit=spaceliner+flightliner

Thanks for the detailed work you did on that reference guide.

 

[kingfish254]

I'll just add this simple info to this thread to keep stuff in one place.

There seems to be a lot of confusion about these two frames.
Many people think they are the same or mistake one for the other.
Figured it was time to start a thread to try and help ID these bikes.

These are two separate men's frames. There may be similarities and shared trim, but that are two different frames.
With the men's frames, you can always identify them by the bar or bars that are below the top tubes.


Men's Spacliner - second set of double bars always runs from the head tube all the way back to the dropouts (or just slightly above the drops).

Men's Flightliner - the front of the bars below the top bars do not connect to the head tube, instead they connect to the down tube.

 

[kingfish254]

There are a couple of differences on the Spaceliner frames as well.
Most of the ones that I have seen have the second set of twin tubes attaching fairly hight on the dropouts like this frame

The Spaceliner that I used for Flexy has more space between the top bars and the second bars and the second bars attach lower on the dropouts.