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kartjockey:
http://detroit.craigslist.org/wyn/mcy/5306954664.html

OnaWingandaPrayer:
are the front spring shafts ( uprights) wider than they would be on a Standard Servi ?  Perhaps thats not what I am seeing in the photo .

Ricks:

--- Quote from: OnaWingandaPrayer on December 22, 2015, 04:50:02 PM ---are the front spring shafts ( uprights) wider than they would be on a Standard Servi ?  Perhaps thats not what I am seeing in the photo .

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Doesn't look like a sportsman to me.  Looks like a cobbled together simplex automatic.  We would need better pictures, but the front fender looks like a regular fender to me. Those tires do not fit a sportsman rim.  The kickstand is an abortion of some sort. I also don't see a crank and rod in that motor, which tells me no flywheel either.  Looks like a $1000 project bike to me.

Just noticed the title say 1956 simplex sportsman senior. The sportsman senior didn't come along to 1960 or so, and looks like a minibike.

kartjockey:
Maybe it is this one and he graphed that morphodite kickstand on it right after downing that beer!  Seat does kind of look like it has a rubber cover.  Def priced too high

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-PRINT-AD-8-X-11-SIMPLEX-SPORTSMAN-MOTORCYCLE-FOR-1958-/131541886241?hash=item1ea081e521&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&nma=true&si=GfRQ3E%252FT4YMJE%252FqcL9AALbEQqk8%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Ricks:

--- Quote from: kartjockey on December 23, 2015, 03:20:18 AM ---Maybe it is this one and he graphed that morphodite kickstand on it right after downing that beer!  Seat does kind of look like it has a rubber cover.  Def priced too high

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-PRINT-AD-8-X-11-SIMPLEX-SPORTSMAN-MOTORCYCLE-FOR-1958-/131541886241?hash=item1ea081e521&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&nma=true&si=GfRQ3E%252FT4YMJE%252FqcL9AALbEQqk8%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

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Tom, you may be right.  Bill Erickson restored a 1958 Sportsman like that.  The fenders are the same, as are the brakes of a regular Servi.  If there were more pictures, we could tell for sure.  If the internal kickstart is missing, that would present a challenge to find one or fabricate one.

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