Seat bar

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What year or models had seat bar straight like these? My other simplex's have the bar curve down the frame then come straight out

[Ricks]

Are there any frame numbers on these? I think they may be late model automatics, but i’m not sure.

[Red]

I'll have to look but they have the square crash bars which I thought were older

[Ricks]

Ok, did some looking around and definitely not late Automatic, but looks like late shifter bikes.  Here is a thread of a 1952 that has the straight style seat bar.  I had a 1949 Model K, and that had a double bend bar.  I also had a very early 1953 that had a bar that followed the frame and then flattened out.  This would seem to indicate sometime between 1950-1952.


http://www.simplexservi-cycle.com/index.php?topic=1307.0

[Red]

#05823 on one of them

[Red]

The other is #01553

[Ricks]

#05823 on one of them

One of the last 1952 models.

[Ricks]

The other is #01553

Early 1951 model.

[Red]

Cool, I wonder why they did the seat bar that way for those couple years

[kartjockey]

my blue bike is 04452

[Ricks]

Cool, I wonder why they did the seat bar that way for those couple years

I'm not sure, but IMHO, it looks a little funky.  Too high, doesn't flow as well as the other styles.

[Red]

You're right,def looks better with seat lower