A fellow in down east dropped this 1939 CCM off at the bus station, for me today. I should have the bicycle by Monday and a pretty neat story surrounds acquiring the bicycle. Anyone care to hazard a guess as to what the bike might be?

White painted stays, 5 pin cottered crankset, Accles and Pollack fork with stamped drops. It's a 1939 Road Racer, fer sure. It will also have a cartridge style Bayliss Wiley bottom bracket. If you rebuilt it, make sure you keep the lockring with it. It has a special bevelled flange to keep the BB from rotating in the shell. The stem is right but I'm not sure about the bars. It would have sported the oversized 28 x 1 1/4 inch Dunlop wheelset to boot. I've got a catalogue scan if you'd like.

It was a path racer-style bike with a flip flop hub and rear Phillips centrepull brake. It didn't stop well at all.

I would like to see the scan and thanks for offering. I am sort of hoping that the bicycle is a Flyer.

Well, the chainset says CCM. I'm guessing it is a Flyer since it looks like a track bike to me.

EDIT: I'm having second thoughts on this being a Flyer. The geometry looks pretty relaxed for a track bike.

Here it is. Love to hear the story that goes with it.

Yeah, don't let the "track ends" fool you, all the ccms were like that up till 1970 or so, then they switched to the more common style, definitely not a flyer, but road racer is right. There is a member here has something like 3 or 4 flyers that you could gawk at though!

Nice!!

I had a 1938 CCM Professional Flyer, it was really nice.

Thanks for the scan and the advertisement looks like the bicycle that is already on its way. The fellow who gave me the bicycle shipped it yesterday. I also received a UPS envelope with a nice big check in it and made out to Bicycles for Humanity - Thunder Bay. How did this all come about?

At B4H we get a lot of bicycles that we cannot send to Africa (inappropriate for Third World riding conditions and hard to get parts for). Such bicycles include old Ten Speeds, old Roadsters and Antiques.

Our volunteers refurbish between 50 and 100 old bicycles each year and sell most in a four hour Yard Sale at our local university. Honestly, we get cleaned out in a Vintage Bicycle Feeding Frenzy every year at the beginning of the school year.



But we cannot service all of the old bikes that we get. I was lucky enough to find a buyer down east who will purchase 100 bikes at a time and for a paltry sum per unit. We presently have a shipment of close to 150 old bikes to send him right now and more coming in all the time. However...



We also get some pretty cool antique bicycles and I found a bulk buyer for those also. The price per unit is much higher but we sell most of what we get to him. In our most recent transaction, I sent him pictures of six old bicycles (CCM Double Bar/Fork, CCM Double Bar, and a few CCM Step Throughs).





At the end of setting the purchase up, and while speaking to him on the phone, I casually asked that he keep a heads up for any old Ten Speeds or Road Bicycles. He immediately told me that he had...

A 1939 CCM road bicycle. I expressed immediate interest in purchasing or trading for the bicycle. The fellow sent me an email shortly after and told me that he would ship the bicycle on Monday of next week. My cost would be to keep finding old bicycles and keep him first informed of their availability. Great, an outlet for B4H bikes that might otherwise end up trashed, and a cool old bicycle for me.

Today, I have to find time to check into an old CCM Massey that is a couple of blocks. Hope I can get that one for the fellow since it is a bike he has been after for a while.



End or story - so far.

I love that bike!!
I think i can make room for it if i sell the couch.

what is the one with the big carrier on the front? do you know what size tires are on it

After 5 years, I doubt he's still following the thread....

to bad, I have one just like it. but the tires are gone. don't know what size they are