i picked up this bike over the weekend and have no idea what it is, anyone ever seen anything like it before.
help identify this bike
- Thread starter camlifter
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a guy wanted my silver bike and offered that bike for trade, i damn near ripped his arm off shaking on the deal. heres a pic of the bike i traded him. he didn't know what his bike was, it has no identification at all on it. no numbers or id tags of any kind.
what's the decal on the tank indicate??? serial numbers anywhere?...where?...what brand is the motor?.... era of spark plug???i picked up this bike over the weekend and have no idea what it is, anyone ever seen anything like it before.
looks hand painted from here...
beautiful fender skirts...do they look hand made?
what brand of coaster brake?
could be an old bike cut in half and joined around an engine platform...SIMPLE, elegant, and solves a ton of common mounting issues....
what'd they nick you for it?
it looks like a modified, or maybe a home-built version, of a Simplex.
check this link: http://www.servi-cycle.com/
check this link: http://www.servi-cycle.com/
it has a simplex kind of look to it, but it's differant enough to maybe be a competitor to semplex, the motor is not original, it's something the guy was going to try and use, the sticker is some flaming skull thing and the wheels are modern 24" with 3" wide tires, no markings of any kind anywhere on the bike. it could be home made but looks to be factory built.
thats a 1953 dodge M37 army truck with 12" of lift and 44's on it.
the bike is a keeper for sure, i'd just hate to start restoring it to my vision of what it could be and latter find out it was some rare bird thats then worthless because i messed with it.
Louie McMann might know or be able to find out. He's big into these antique motorcycles. If it turns out to not be a rare bird to keep pretty much as is, what would you do with it? I know you've been thinking about it. Pretty cool bike!
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id like to get rid of the flat bottom and make it more motorcycle than scooter. i've had 2 guys who know there stuff about antique bikes look at it, they both have never seen one like it, and both thought although it looks factory that it is a one off build by someone in the 50's.
Well, that looks sweet, I don't know the bike,,, but i do know the decal of the flaming skull, I seen them @ Meijer's in the automotive section, check them out @ lethanthreat.com,,,, I bought some last weekend but didn't put any on yet. everyone have a safe & great weekend ,,, I'm going riding Later dirtyoldcrusier. 
