Possible Flyer?

Submitted by agillies on Tue, 01/19/2016 - 12:57

Hi, I'm new to the forum and I'm hoping to get some information on a bike I'm looking at buying. I haven't had a chance to see it in person yet.

 

It looks like its been repainted at home with letters stuck on it saying its a flyer. The seller says their grandfather used to race it in the mid to late 30s. It looks like the pedals have been replaced and possibly the stem? Is it a flyer?

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

4 Comments

Submitted by oldy57 on Tue, 01/19/2016 - 15:31.

It is hard to tell by pictures if it is a Flyer or a Road Racer. It looks more like the racer. The seat, pedals, grips and maybe the wheels are not correct. The chainring is the later style, after 1935 but the arms look to be earlier style. If it is a Flyer it needs a lot of parts to make it more correct if that is the way you want to go. Flyer parts are hard to find and not too many guys want to let them go. Collectors, horders or whatever you want to call them they just know if they sell them they will find another project in the future that will need the parts. Not sure what you can get it for but I would think $300 would be a good buy. Serial number would tell the year.

Submitted by roadworthy on Tue, 01/19/2016 - 22:35.

I looked at that bike at the original owners house at least 15 years ago. It is a CCM road flyer. Except for the seat pedals, grips and stem, it seems to have its original parts.

Submitted by T-Mar on Wed, 01/20/2016 - 08:30.

It can sometimes be hard to tell the difference from a photograph, though I am leaning towards a repainted Flyer with mosly non-original parts. The best way to identify the model is  to raise the saddle and measure the diameter of the seat post. The Road Racer used CCM's standard 7/8" diameter post but the Flyer used a much larger 1-1/16" diameter post due to the stronger and thinner chrominum-molybdenum tubing used in its construction. 

Submitted by locomotion on Fri, 01/22/2016 - 08:06.

congrats KGM on the new buy