Originally Posted by
Grand Bois
Is it really a track bike or just a bike built the way they built them in those days?
I'm afraid that any attempt to restore it would ruin it. I'd just wipe it down with some oil and hang it up.
A lot of people see track ends and assume that a bicycle was a track bike but this was how they made bicycles when fixed drives were what everyone rode... in the modern day many companies are fitting track ends to bicycles so that they can accommodate a wider choice in drive configurations. My Pugsley has track ends and a derailleur hangar and the only track it sees in single track.
My 1951 CCM was originally a coaster equipped bicycle and also has track ends but is by no means a track bicycle... the hipsters love it.
