Vintage CCM Bicycles

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 picked up an old camel back today.

Hi,  I was wondering if anyone has a good pic of the type of Mesinger bike saddle used on CCM Flyte bikes by 1938 onwards.  The catalogue image shows a really longer spring saddle than examples that I have seen.  Thanks!  David

I'm in the process of preparing some nickel-plated hubs to be laced into two pairs of new wood rims I bought from Noah Stutzman in Ohio. Some questions have come up and I'm hoping someone here knows about the evolution of CCM's early front hubs. In the first photo, hubs 1 and 2 are nickel. Hub 3 looks chrome-plated but it's dull and not the shiny chrome of postwar bikes. Hub 1 is thicker than 2 and 3 and in the second photo you can see the bearing cup has a smaller surface area as a result.

Hi, just picked up my second RedBird in two weeks. This one is probably much newer than my other. Still need to find the serial # but thought I'd post a couple pictures. Possibly sharper eyes than mine will know right away. Seems I'll be fighting a broken handlebar stem bolt and possibly seized stem but I've given it all a good dousing with PB Blaster penetratimng oil and I'll let it sit for a couple days as it just turned bitter here last night and my garage is unheated.