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Old 04-06-12, 10:49 PM
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Mos6502
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It's a Snyder built bike. They manufactured bikes for the Hawthorne and Rollfast brands. The different brands used different styles of chain ring, but I can't remember which design went with which brand. Somebody probably knows.

There was a Hawthorne branded one at a local swap meet for $40 a week ago. Edit: one at the swapmeet was also blue. Sometimes you can strip off paint with brake parts cleaner without removing the original baked on finish.
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