General Category => Introductions => Topic started by: 40scout on July 26, 2014, 05:26:02 PM
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Just signed up. I have two Servi-cycles.
One has a Continental go cart motor.
The other has the original motor. It has been restored.
I don't know the age of either one yet.
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HI and Welcome! Look under the neck and see if there is a number there. The original one will have a number for sure, as it is an automatic, the other looks much earlier. Chassis numbers started around 1950.
Post a few more pictures of each bike and the engine number on the original.
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The original serial number under the neck is:
an upside down 2 followed by 9680.
I don't see a serial number on the other one.
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9680 is a 1955 model. What the upside down number 2 is, I have never seen anything like that. The handlebars and headlight are probably not original to the bike.
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Thank you so much, it is good to know what year it is. -Brian
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Hello Brian and Welcome . A pair of nice looking bikes .
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Welcome Brian .
Nice bikes , for sure .
Pete . :)
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Nice bikes!
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Any chance you can get a photo of that serial number? It would be very rare for there to be an inverted number. There should be 5 digits, all in line with each other.
According to Bob Kerr, a former Simplex employee told him the number was stamped on the plate before it was welded to the frame (he related a story of dropping a box of them one time & they just scooped them up, not paying attention to the order of numbers).
With a 9 as the 2nd digit, a zero should be the 2nd digit....unless it's an extremely rare model that would have a "1" as the first digit.
Is the plate missing from the other bike?
Mike Sal
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Mike, other bike looks like an early frame. I think the seat bar is attached like an center fill gas tank model.
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Welcome and Very Nice Bikes. 8)
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I took pictures of the serial number. Looks like I was wrong about the upside down 2. I was looking at the whole serial number upside down. Anyone care to decipher this serial number and tell me the age?
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That 2nd digit looks like a 6 to me, which puts you into 1953. If it's really an 8, then you jump up to 1955.
Mike Sal
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That 2nd digit looks like a 6 to me, which puts you into 1953. If it's really an 8, then you jump up to 1955.
Mike Sal
I agree with Mike. What is the engine number?
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The engine number is M19480B
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The motor number is slightly newer than the normal series, but would be just right if it was a replacement motor early in it's life. But as we discussed at length at Portland this year, There's lots of mis-matches in Simplex land.
Mike Sal