Help! What kind of bicycle?
10-04-12, 01:06 PM
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Help! What kind of bicycle?
Hello,
I am Jesper Tichelaar from The Netherlands and am new on this forum.
I am here to ask you guys for some help.
I got to pictures of Howard Hughes on a bicycle. One of him when he was 12 and one in 1937 when he was 32.
I added them to the attachment. It seems that the bicycles are the same ( Howard didn't like changing things anyway..)
Can someone tell me what kind of make these bicycles are? And maybe what year...
Thanks!
Jesper
I am Jesper Tichelaar from The Netherlands and am new on this forum.
I am here to ask you guys for some help.
I got to pictures of Howard Hughes on a bicycle. One of him when he was 12 and one in 1937 when he was 32.
I added them to the attachment. It seems that the bicycles are the same ( Howard didn't like changing things anyway..)
Can someone tell me what kind of make these bicycles are? And maybe what year...
Thanks!
Jesper
10-04-12, 01:16 PM
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I don't believe they're the same bike.
The first one appears to have been modified by removing the crank and substituting what appears to be a starter motor with a small cog on the motor shaft driving the chain. There's a knife switch mounted on the handlebar to connect the battery to the starter motor. Hughes liked to tinker with mechanical and electrical things all of his life.
The second bike still has the crank installed.
The first one appears to have been modified by removing the crank and substituting what appears to be a starter motor with a small cog on the motor shaft driving the chain. There's a knife switch mounted on the handlebar to connect the battery to the starter motor. Hughes liked to tinker with mechanical and electrical things all of his life.
The second bike still has the crank installed.
10-04-12, 01:21 PM
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That's correct. But the motorized frame seems to be the same as the frame of the bike in the second picture, doesn't it?
I think he based his motorized bike on a bike similair to the one in the second picture. But what is it...
I think he based his motorized bike on a bike similair to the one in the second picture. But what is it...
10-04-12, 01:36 PM
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Hughes was born in 1905, and so if he was twelve the first photo would have been from around 1917. My guess is it was probably a Columbia or a Schwinn.
This is a 1917 Schwinn World, but lots of bikes around that time had frames similar in appearance. Most models like this one could be purchased without the "tank" between the top bars. It's hard to tell what they are without better photos.
This is a 1917 Schwinn World, but lots of bikes around that time had frames similar in appearance. Most models like this one could be purchased without the "tank" between the top bars. It's hard to tell what they are without better photos.
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I would bet both are Schwinns. Fork and headbadge look like a schwinn on the first. The Chainring on the second one looks like a Schwinn.
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