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Photo Gallery / Re: 1935 Servicycle
« on: April 07, 2025, 01:40:59 PM »
Tom, was the cover cast or was it machined?
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Restoration Projects / Re: Chromoholic
« on: March 21, 2025, 02:31:56 PM »
Tom, if a guy didn’t have a cnc mill, could that be done with a boring head? Maybe turn the cutter inside and run it in reverse? Just thinking out loud.
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Engine & Transmission / Re: Servi Cycle Carb
« on: February 19, 2025, 09:54:59 AM »
Wayne Mahaffey is currently trying to find a guy to make more reproductions. The last guy that made them is no longer willing to make any more. I'm also on the hunt for one.
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Engine & Transmission / Re: Servi Cycle Carb
« on: February 10, 2025, 05:10:33 PM »I wonder what the sign in front of it says. Looks like it says Chief on it.
Rick ,
I enlarged that pic and it does say "CHIEF" .
Pete .
Yeah, I want to know what the rest of it says.
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Engine & Transmission / Re: Servi Cycle Carb
« on: February 09, 2025, 10:40:28 AM »
I wonder what the sign in front of it says. Looks like it says Chief on it.
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Engine & Transmission / Re: Servi Cycle Carb
« on: February 09, 2025, 04:17:39 AM »
You posted a picture of a complete bike. Which part are you missing? What year?
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Brochures and other Literature / Re: 1937-40 parts list
« on: February 02, 2025, 01:07:21 PM »
Tom, are you taking orders? 
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Restoration Projects / Re: Chromoholic
« on: January 19, 2025, 05:09:57 PM »
Tom, are you going to weld up the groove or just use fill it?
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Brochures and other Literature / Re: Towing
« on: January 17, 2025, 05:48:50 PM »
Nice. Mystery solved!
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Restoration Projects / Re: Chromoholic
« on: January 12, 2025, 11:11:54 AM »
Tom, the early ones were made straight, and the later ones were made with the offset like you have. I don't know why or when the change was made.
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Introductions / Re: Newbie from MI
« on: December 31, 2024, 04:39:29 AM »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.
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Introductions / Re: Newbie from MI
« on: December 30, 2024, 06:53:06 PM »
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.
Now, what I do see as possible is that being the original engine number, without the M prefix and B suffix.
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Other Things Simplex / Re: Happy Thanksgiving
« on: November 28, 2024, 07:50:07 AM »
Happy Thanksgiving Boys! I hope you are having better weather than us here on Long Island.
Get working on your projects, only 7 months until Portland. I’m taking my junk to the powder coater next week, getting ready for the Portland build.
Get working on your projects, only 7 months until Portland. I’m taking my junk to the powder coater next week, getting ready for the Portland build.
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Brochures and other Literature / Re: Joseph Treen's Internal Combustion Engine Patents
« on: November 20, 2024, 10:08:40 AM »
Reading through JP’s patent is interesting. Who amongst us knew that these engines were “supercharged?” 😂 What is interesting is when the Model L changed from a rotary valve to the Model M style crank, it lost its supercharging ability.
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Off Topic / Re: Safti-Cycle Commando
« on: October 29, 2024, 05:52:09 PM »
Make a stop so the kick start doesn’t flop so far forward.