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How"s that number comin'?! Although that number is doubtful only the frame number will truly validate it. Post pic of frame number!
Tom, I can’t see how that number can be possible. Simplex was running on fumes by 1957, and was only building about 1500 bikes that year and less each successive year.
Now, what I do see as possible is that being the original engine number, without the M prefix and B suffix.
I’ll look again and see what I can find on the frame. I don’t have the original engine, so can’t check that. Would the title normally have an engine number rather than a frame number?
BTW, thank you for assisting with my site access!
You are welcome!
Before 1950 there were no frame numbers on Simplex bikes, so they all used the engine number. Like Tom said, the frame numbers on the scooters are hard to see/find, so that’s why I threw it out there.
Impressive collection , Rick .
Very nice .
Pete .
Tom, I can’t see how that number can be possible. Simplex was running on fumes by 1957, and was only building about 1500 bikes that year and less each successive year.
Now, what I do see as possible is that being the original engine number, without the M prefix and B suffix.
If that is the case you have launched a pivotable moment in scooter history! That number suggests almost 5000 units above any others suggesting it to be a built in 1960 and not just re-titled. Did you find the matching number on the frame bracket I spoke of?
Incidentally, I have found the scooter frame numbers to be so lightly stamped they are hard to recover through any paint, etc. So you may have to lightly sand that location to retrieve the number.
I really like the green. My name is Tom. I seldom post on Facebook but that was me that asked about the frame number.
Welcome to the site!
What's under the hood?
