divineAndbright

Hello, Was wondering if any of you may shed some light on this bike.. bought it today, im guessing 30s-40s.
I dont know much about sunshine company, the head badge states the company was in Waterloo, ontario.

It took 28 1 1/2 wheels obliously, but they are gone, there were 26 inch thin wheels on it.
Someone painted it black, original color is maroon with white pinstripes which are pretty much on every tube.
The handlebars are very wide.

I cant find a serial number on it so far..

Here you can find some photos (in the directory they all begin with P
if anyone wants some more detailed photos of any part I can take some.
https://www.rollingscrapheap.com/temp

Thanks!

PS: anyone have any tips for getting the black paint off.. it flakes off fairly easy in some areas, would polystripper or something work?

divineAndbright

Well here is my extreme amature rat "resto" job.. not bad for a day. the poly stripper got the black paint off descently enough (and the original paint in a lot of areas), But I love it! Cant wait to give er a whirl tomorrow.. love those super wide handlebars I even put an old bicycle bell on em. Its heavy as anything, so people better stay out of my way..

PS: I also located a serial number after removing the paint on the seat post tube at the top on the non-drive side.

OLDYELLR

Great pictures, divineAndbright. About 20 years ago a buddy of mine at work would ride a vintage CCM to work on occasion. He left it between the doors at the employees' entrance when he was on night shift. Seems like some kids stole it. They probably never even realized it wasn't just some POS from Canadian Tire.

Im Fixed

I have a sunshine tricycle made in Waterloo 1950's.

divineAndbright

I decided to take it out for a quick ride.. its pretty much what I expected; torture to ride it, mainly due to the wide handle bars (makes going fast and climbing hills kinda hard). Makes my 60s CCM cruisers feel like cake walks, but I still love it, and will ride it regularly.

Now I await a couple of ballooners to refurbish and I'll be set for life (awaiting a early 40s rollfast from toronto to arrive).. and got an unknown bent/rusty double top tube frame (slightly visible in above photo).

Im Fixed

I have a half a dozen CCM's from the fiftys and sixtys I have a 1918 [fixed]I ride to work every day. How close are you to T.O.

divineAndbright

Hello, Im from Sudbury, ON, which is about 4-5 hours from TO

Do you have any photos of the CCMs you have? I'd really love to see them!

Im Fixed

Sudbury ay Brrrrr. Ill try and get out to the yard this weekend and snap off a few.

CdnPeugeot

t-mar has a top-o-line ccm, i asked him to post the pics but refused cause he thought no one on the forum wanted to see it but me! maybe a little forum pressure will bring out the pics

divineAndbright

Im Fixed: awesome! I appreciate that, thanks!

Im Fixed

Heres the pics. I put a picture of what the 1918 looked like in her day!

divineAndbright

Wow, great collection, total envy! I really love that double top tube one with the basket, and the marroon one with the black chainguard is really sweet too. I recognize the 1918 now, you made a thread about it awhile back, you say you picked it up at landfill right? That is so awesome, is that where you got the rest of them?

Im Fixed

I have a salvage yard 2 buddys and I run they were dropped off. But the cleveland I found at the landfill.

sunshineboy

I picked up a great 1940's cruiser at the dump too, but it did cost me $1... ;-)

Reduce, re-use, re-CYCLE!!!

BlankCrows

Congratulations!

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