One final comment, the Air Force Museum in Dayton OH also has a display bike next to their repro Wright B Flyer, not sure if is a Wright Cycles frame, but I'd bet on it! The Air Force Museum and the Wright Bros Bike Shop Museum are free and open admission to the public.
The Wright Bros Museum is close (5 mile) to the folks at Airborn Cycles that currently do R&D research for Huffy Corp based in the Dayton region. Here is the URL for Airborn Cycles TI frames... <http://www.airborne.net/eready/janette/Store/pc0801.asp>. I wonder if they can fix a '75 Teledyne Titan TI frame I have that needs repair???
Regards, Steve Neago
Cincinnati, OH
> Here is the URL for the Wright Bros Bike Shop Museum...
> http://www.nps.gov/
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Neago" <questor@cinci.rr.com>
> To: <CBKNYC@aol.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 12:06 AM
> Subject: Re: [CR]Wright Brothers Van Cleve
>
>
> > Hello Charles,
> >
> > I live 50 miles away from the original Wright Bros bike store which is
> open
> > as a museum. Several bikes are on display at the Wright Bros Museum on
> First
> > St. in Dayton. I stopped in several years ago and I don't remember if
> they
> > were repro or original.
> >
> > There is a second museum site at the Dayton General Airport that has a
> repro
> > bike on display, as well as the Wright B. Flyer repro. I drove by it
> > earlier today. I seem to remember that the Smithsonian in DC has
several
> > original bikes.
> >
> > What info are you seeking?
> >
> > Regards, Steve Neago
> > Cincinnati, OH
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <CBKNYC@aol.com>
> > To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 10:57 PM
> > Subject: [CR]Wright Brothers Van Cleve
> >
> >
> > As all here know, the Wright Brothers --- of flying fame, the first
> > heavier-than-air controlled flight -- started in the bicycle biz.
> >
> > Anybody know if any of their bikes survived? I'd figure they were, you
> > know
> > -- light. Here's a site about 'em, with pictures:
> >
> > http://www.first-to-fly.com/
> >
> > "After several years of repairing bicycles, the Wright brothers
decided
> > they could build a better bike than they could buy. In 1896, the began
to
> > manufacture the top-of-the line Van Cleve and the lower-priced St.
Clair,
> > both named for Ohio pioneers. These were not mass-produced machines, but
> > were
> > hand-built to a customer\u2019s specifications. "
> >
> > - Charles
> >
> > ======================================
> > Charles Kramer, NY, NY cbknyc@aol.com