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Found one of my dream bike..cycles today!

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Found one of my dream bike..cycles today!

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Well here it is! Scored one of my dream bikes today! According to serial number chart its from 1941. Double bar ccm baby, first one I actually seen in person and not in a photo! Sadly the fork is really bent, someone must had taken a huge jump on it or something, they are raked out to sunday!

I had planned last night to call a flea market a few towns away and ask if they had any old single speeds, and the guy said he did. I hung up the phone and brought a eatons glider 5sp I found in the trash into some rideability. I was planning on riding it there, jettisoning it and riding whatever bike I would buy home (brought a buncha wrenches and tubes/pump, screw drivrers lube and such too).

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I had to put a crank arm on the glider cause I pulled the left one off for another bike some time ago, I took off the rack cause I wanted to keep it, I also wanted to save the front rim+wheel, so I put the worse one I could find in my parts stash. This proved a bad idea as it was really untrue and would rub the brakes hard, even when I pulled the cable loose. I eventually Pulled a wrench out and removed one of the pads and chucked it.

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Riding this bike the whole way sucked, halfway there the crank grease was gone, the frame on this bike is slightly too big for me, so i had to worse crotch/ass pain ever.

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But that all vanished when I saw this.. I now had rusty steel in mind!

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The only single speed I could spot was a 60s supercycle cruiser.

I was about to ask if he had any others, but I went for a walk instead.

I went to the back part of the yard, I went to this place last year (I bought the '74 ccm ranger from this place) and there were a few old cruisers out back.. he told me then they werent for sale though, not that they were anything special.

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and I found this.. My mind was blown. 28" double bar CCM. I grabbed it and brought it back to the front, grabbed the supercycle an brought em to "uncle rick". "how much for these??"

"$24 each."

I told him I'd give him $40 and the eatons Glider. Deal!

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Now I had to ride 2 and a half hours with two bikes, it was one of the most grueling things Ive ever done, I was on the verge of passing out after 3 quarters of the way home, Plus I had to work tonight. By the time I was near home it was 10 to 5pm.. I work at 5pm. I brought both bikes to work and signed in for my shift. Maybe I shoulda just got the CCM, but oh well it was worth it, I'd do it again!

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I also spotted this girls eaton glider 3 speed.. pretty much a sister of what I rode there.. thought that was pretty funny!

The CCM is still pretty sturdy despite the bent fork tube, im not worried about it snapping on me.. but hopefully I can find a replacement fork that would fit someday though.

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That is inspiring stuff! Such items could hardly come more well-deserved?!! Exelsior?!
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ohh man, i hate having to take two bikes some were and only being able to ride one. It's such a pain. Some times i put a big basket on one and tie the other bike on with a junk tube or somthing. The blue ccm is so nice though. That fork almost looks like a chopper fork. I'd keep it.
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thos rust are so inspirating...ohh boy!
...why do we keep writing things down here...?
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