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Due to the heavy rain this week and last night... the bike show this week-end is cancelled !!!
Please spread the word to those you know !
Jody's property is soaked and will not be dry in time for the Sunday show !!!
Sorry to be posting this bad news on Jamie's behalf !!!
So I just did a re and re on the CCM 37 hub on the Flyte. Completely cleaned, wire wheeled all gunk and greased all parts. I even bought a cylinder oner and honed the heck out of them. Just like my other 37 hub it started to screech after several long rides.
Not Safe For Bike Weirdos...
Spent a good ten hours (okay, maybe 12) doing a cleanup and service of this lovely lady. As requested I took a ton of pics for you all. if you want any different angles, just lemme know.
Few things I noticed.
What's left of 1937 Flyte serial # 3A851 was discovered in the loft of a garage after a house purchase in St. Catherines. It most definitely looks black, not a rusty/dirty Saphire Blue. I removed the pump clamp and it's still black underneath. Is there a chance CCM made Flytes in black in 1937 or 38? Could it have been a custom colour, or did the colour fade to black over 80 years? The cream fenders have a stripe down the middle. The forks are rusted chrome. I will be able to put wheels and handlebar on it and ride it as soon as it stops raining.
Just picked this up today. Fella was about 20 minutes from my house!
I'll get more pictures soon.
Wayne
Hi All!
I hope you all don't mind that i posted this in the Vintage CCM Bicycles Section, since thta seemed like the most appropriate forum section for tools. I also hope you don't mind that I posted it at all, but I wanted to place it here in case anyone would find a cheap-to-build truing stand helpful. I was getting kind of frustrated trying to straighten a badly wapred wheel on the bicycle, so I donated a couple of hours to building this tool. (Plus about 10 pencil and paper hours trying to figure out what I wanted....)
Picked up a bike today with that serial number and it doesn't show in the lists.
This bike was on Kijiji with over 800 views but was not selling. The daughter of the owner said people were either no-shows or made offers of around $30. I thought I would help the woman out of her misery and pick up the bike. It's crazy that nobody bought it because it's in beautiful original condition and all I had to do to make it rideable was put air in the tires. It will look even better once I've cleaned up the rims and hubs. It had a 10-speed seat on it so I put on one that is at least the correct shape if not the correct colour.
I just got this delivery bike as a frame and fork.
