Use this forum to discuss all things related to vintage CCM bicycles including Rambler, Flyte, Mustang etc.
I acquired this bike recently from a relative. I can't really find any identification or serial numbers on it, or any indication of make/model. So I'd like to know what I have here, when it was likely made, etc. And yes, I know the front fender is on backwards. Thanks for any info.
Hello
I am new to this so I hope you bear with me
I have two questions/problems
I have an "old" CCM bicycle...I was told around the 1950s, how do I identify it?
lastly...the tires on this bike are 28x1.5...I order new ones...28X1.5 but they are too big....where can I get tires??
I purchased a CCM ballooner/middleweight here in New Zealand from a man who had lived in Canada sometime earlier in his life and he claimed it to be from the 1950's. It has all the characteristic Ballooner traits except the F.12 (S-7) rims and tires of 26" x 2" x 1 3/4". It's VERY unlikely these were later added as the frame only has a single top tube. However, the serial number is more like that of a 1940's bike being 9V3996. That V as a second digit is not mentioned ANYWHERE.
New to the board and new to the vintage bike collecting.This is my RAT cycle.Every body keeps asking me when I am going to restore it.When I tell them I like mine with a little rust they just give me an odd look and say WHY?
did ccm when they used perry hubs ever use a thread on sprocket or just a clip ot hold on the sprocket . thanks william rudolph
I recently sent this to Mike Berry and thought some others might be interested in it as well. It appeared in a 1948 edition of the CCM newsletter VIM.
Doc Morton was a legendary Canadian bike racer and mechanic who had a close relationship with CCM. He was Torchy Peden's coach and mentor and operated a bicycle shop in Toronto for many years.
I am restoring a '33 woman's CCM and I am looking for some good shots of the period skirt guard.
I am also looking for a period SA three speed gear switcher, not the one that goes on the handle bars, but the one that goes on the top tube.
You can e mail me at lruskin=====telus.net
Good day. On June 18 I entered a 1934 CCM in the Kluane Chilkat International Bicycle Relay from Haines Junction in the Yukon to Haines on the coast of Alaska, where I rode the last 19 miles into Fort Seward, of the 148 miles total. One of my teammates, John Lewis, was so taken with the idea of racing vintage that he searched out his childhood bike (stored in some nephew's garage, unwanted) and is dismantling it with intention to restore and race it next year. Of course, there is no hope that he could use a coaster-brake one-speed on the mile-long hills of the Haines H
