Help with identifying old bike
08-07-23, 04:06 PM
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Help with identifying old bike
For the last 55 years or so my bike has been my trusty old 1968 Schwinn Collegiate, but i got curious about the bike I rode before that one.
I got it in the early 1960s, and it was a red middleweight 26" "tank" bicycle, except instead of the tank being narrow side-to-side and fitting vertically between the upper frame bars like some vintage models, it was only about 2"-3" tall and more horizontal side-to-side, and tapered wider from the seat post to the head post, maybe six inches wide at the head post.. The tank wrapped around the head tube and terminated in the front with a two-lamp headlight. If I recall it also had a horn button on the top of the tank and the horn and light used D-Cells that were loaded inside the tank.
My recollection was that the bike was called a Monarch, but I also know there is a Swedish company called Monark that made bikes back then.
Can anyone tell me what I had?
I got it in the early 1960s, and it was a red middleweight 26" "tank" bicycle, except instead of the tank being narrow side-to-side and fitting vertically between the upper frame bars like some vintage models, it was only about 2"-3" tall and more horizontal side-to-side, and tapered wider from the seat post to the head post, maybe six inches wide at the head post.. The tank wrapped around the head tube and terminated in the front with a two-lamp headlight. If I recall it also had a horn button on the top of the tank and the horn and light used D-Cells that were loaded inside the tank.
My recollection was that the bike was called a Monarch, but I also know there is a Swedish company called Monark that made bikes back then.
Can anyone tell me what I had?
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08-07-23, 04:22 PM
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your bike was the Monark one from Chicago
also known as Monark Silver Shield
the Swedish one is located in Varberg Sweden and is part of an entity termed MCB for Monark - Cresecent Bicycles
there is loads of information regarding the Monark of Chicago at a bicycle forum called thecabe.com
examples/catalogues/pictures/serial information/company history
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your bike was the Monark one from Chicago
also known as Monark Silver Shield
the Swedish one is located in Varberg Sweden and is part of an entity termed MCB for Monark - Cresecent Bicycles
there is loads of information regarding the Monark of Chicago at a bicycle forum called thecabe.com
examples/catalogues/pictures/serial information/company history
free to join
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