Hi I'm new here I hope you can help me with information. I'm going to bring this back to its original form. I purchased this at a local swap meet. The gent I purchased it from said it was a military issue bike. He showed the engine tag and almost all parts for it.  I'm looking for year color and anything else that could help in my resto. There is what I think is orig green and  black paint on it. Some kind of ring on the side of it. No kick start I don't know why. Could it have broken off?

Hi my name is Mark. I just found my first simplex  I'm here because I'm interested in learning more about it maybe find some parts and see other members bikes /collections and learn about them.