Woo Hoo!
After about 6 months of subtle work, I have, in my care an early CCM Flyer. I am wondering if anyone could help me narrow down it's birth year.
It has the following:
There is a serial # stamped on the seatlug in three groupings 4 B6 77. There is a possibility that the "B" is actually a 3, but even with a loupe I'm not positive.
Stamped, diamond shaped headbadge with CCM horizontally across the center of the badge.
Steep fork angle as compared to the road racer.
No braze-ons.
No drillings for brakes.
No tubing decals, model name decals or pin striping, but it does have a 1947 bicycle registration decal on the seattube.
CCM Flyer front hub with 27 inch, 36 hole Dunlop Special Lightweight rim.
Fork has chrome crown and lower 1/3.
CCM headset.
Major Taylor stem with plated steel track bars.
B17 narrow saddle with corked Brooks alloy pin.
CCM cotterless steel cranks and chainring (1/2" pitch).
Currently set up with a Sturmey Archer 3 speed hub. It is an AM 8. I know! It should be an AM 3 but it is stamped as clear as day AM 8. It is not a double hit. I guess that someone engraved it wrong. It also does not have a year on the hub that I can see. The AM 3 came out in 1936, when did they start engraving the year of build on the hubs?
Since it is a 3 speed it has Philco clamp on brakes front and rear.
The colour is sort of a taupe, beige, champagne but it shows white where it has been rubbed through in spots. Would the white be primer/undercoat, or was maybe the bike re-painted at some time (before 1947, remember the reg.) and that is why there is no decals, striping etc.?
That is about it!
What do you think?
Victor Penner
slowly building a canadian bike collection in Van/BC/Canada