 | Aristocrat (1935, Colson) - An older restoration with paint by Bob Strucel, This bike is immaculate and sports steel clad wood rims, speedo and Delta horn. Entry Submitted by Evan Penny |
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 | Bullnose (1941, Firestone) - Firestone Super Cruiser, womens model. Features Colson "Cushioner" spring fork. This model is unusual in that it has a chainguard that is normally used on the Goodyear version of this bike, the Goodyear Clipper. |
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 | Catalog (1937 Fall / Winter, Firestone) - 1937 Fall and Winter Firestone catalog showing Huffman and Colson bicycles. The Fleetwood Supreme is offered by Firestone for the first time. Notice in the photo the bike is shown with unusual truss rods that never made it into mass production. |
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 | Catalog (1937 Spring / Summer, Firestone) - 1937 Spring and Summer catalog from Firestone showing Huffman and Colson built bicycles. The coveted Firestone Fleetwood Supreme, known commonly as a Huffman Streamliner is shown as the top of the line. |
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 | Catalog (1938 Spring / Summer, Firestone ) - Firestone's 1938 Spring and Summer catalog once again shows Huffman and Colson built bicycles. The Fleetwood Supreme is offered for the last time, and the new Twin-Flex is offered featuring front and rear suspension. Huffman's first version of the Twin-Flex was nickamed the Death Bike because it almost caused the death of the Huffman Manufacturing ... |
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 | Catalog (1954, Evans Colson) - Bicycle dealer catalog. This catalog shows the full line of bicycles and tricycles offered by Evans Colson for the 1954 model year. The most deluxe bike offered was the Firebird, a 3 speed balloon tire bike with hand brakes and springer fork. The single speed version was named the Olympic.This bike and others offered this year were designed by the ... |
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 | Commander (1936, Colson) - Art deco bike designed by Wilbur Henry Adams industrial designer from Cleveland.Unlike anything on the market at that time and was not very popular.Only a handful are in existance today. The largest head badge ever for Colson. Entry Submitted by Bill Triplett |
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 | Commander (1937, Colson) - Outrageous design by Wilbur Henry Adams resulted in this art-deco beauty of a bicycle. Entry Submitted by Bill Triplett |
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 | Commander (1936, Colson) - The Colson Commander of the mid 1930's was a very rare bike, made of two pieces of tubing that ran in a continuous loop from the top of the head tube, around the back, under the crank housing and back up to the head tube again. Just behind the head tube was encased in sheet metal for design and to provide an area to store the batteries for the horn... |
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 | Cushioner (1941, Colson) - One of the rarest bikes out there.This bike is an original(not reproduction) twin cushionair frame. It is an older restoration with great color scheme painted by Bob Strucel and still in beautiful condition. A spectacular prewar design. Entry Submitted by Evan Penny |
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 | Deluxe Clipper (1949, Colson) - Similar to the pre-war 1941 model, the post-war model had differnet fenders, tail light, and headlight. Otherwise the design remained faithful to the original. |
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 | Double Eagle Deluxe (1941, Goodyear) - In 1941, Goodyear sold the Double Eagle Clipper, and Double Eagle Deluxe bicycles. Designed by Wilbur Henry Adams, a noted industrial designer of the time, they were manufactured by the Colson Company of Elyria Ohio for only one year for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. For several years after WWII, it was sold by the Colson Co. under their ... |
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 | Fall Winter Dealer Catalog (1941, Goodyear) - The Goodyear Double Eagle Clipper and Double Eagle Deluxe were Goodyear's top of the line bikes for 1941. The Design was the work of Wilbur Henry Adams, who was involved in other bicycle and toy designs at the time for the Colson Corporation. |
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 | Firebird (1954-55, Evans-Colson) - This top of the line Firebird 3-speed model has seen better days, but it is a rare bike worth saving. Unlike the more common Olympic model it features caliper brakes that reach around the fat fenders, Evanaction spring fork, chrome Delta headlight and tail light with built in stoplight feature that worked based on the movement of a ball bearing. |
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 | Firestone (1940, Firestone) - Rare Firestone built by Murray Ohio. We are now aware of 5 bicycle manufacturers who made bicycles for Firestone. They are, Huffman, Colson, Murray Ohio, H.P. Snyder and for a very brief time, Cleveland Welding Co. H.P. Snyder only made Firestone bicycles for a short time in the late 50's. |
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 | FLYER (1933, Colson) - ALMOST RIDABLE COLSON. NOT SURE OF YEAR, BIKE HAS A LOT OF CHROME, NOT NICKLE. FRAME IS DARK MAROON WITH WHITE DARTS AND GOLD PIN STRIPES. IF ANYBODY KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT THIS BIKE FEEL FREE TO EMAIL. Entry Submitted by Jeff Taylor |
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 | Flyer (1930's, Colson) - This 1930's Colson Flyer has nice original paint for its age. Equipped with a toolbox tank and truss fork. |
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 | Flyer Hi-Lo Drive (1934, Colson) - Restored Deluxe Hi-Lo with two speed transmission built in.Equipped with Pharis snake belly tires.Delta Nighthawk Headlight and battery can with toolbox built in.NOS Delta Rowdy horn,button and Defnder taillight on board.Nickel plated springs on a Troxel saddle was also part of the deluxe package.NOS Persons Majectic Siren was added. Entry Submitt... |
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 | Flying Ace (1941, Firestone) - Original unmolested 1941 Colson Built Firestone Flying Ace.
Complete bike with fair to good paint and a really nice patina. Entry Submitted by John Dombrowski |
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 | Flying Ace (1940, Firestone) - This Colson built "Flying Ace" was sold through Firestone dealers. Similar models were sold under other names. This bike features a tank and chainguard that have a matching wedge stamped into them. Also features truss fork, front loading torpedo headlight, and rear carrier. Rear carrier is designed with the bend at the rear. |
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 | Imperial (1937, Imperial) - This fully restored Colson built Imperial features a striking black and red paint job with bright yellow accent pinstripes, and art-deco chrome insert on the tank. It features a Delta Hornlite on the front fender, and a Delta Defender tail light on the rear fender. Notice the swan like goosneck, which was a Colson exclusive. This bike also sports a... |
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 | Imperial (1930's, Colson) - All orig except the Magna aftermarket pedals which, although not repro's, did not come with the bike. Persons 'teardrop' pedals would be correct for this bike. 'Waterfall' headbadge is also repro. Entry Submitted by marc poberejsky |
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 | Imperial (1937, Packard) - Scott McCaskey's 1937 Colson Imperial is an outstanding, well preserved example of a very rare bike. This Packard badged Colson still wears it's original paint and plating. It is equipped with a Lobdell horizontal-spring saddle, Stewart-Warner Clipper speedometer, aluminum Delta horn-light, and an aluminum Delta tail-light. Notice the unique Colson... |
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 | Imperial (1938, Colson) - This outstanding original 1938 Colson Imperial features bright yellow and black paint, aluminum fenders, chromed tank and chainguard, unique swan gooseneck, Colson Imperial "Waterfall" badge, Delta lights, Stewart Warner speedometer, New Departure front coaster brake, Persons streamline pedals and more! |
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 | Imperial (Colson) - This Colson features the unique Colson exclusive "Cushioner" spring fork that used a rubber bushing for the spring action. This bike shares many parts with the Colson built Goodyear Clipper bicycle. Only the tank, chain guard and paint layout differ. |
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 | Imperial (1941, Colson) - Older restored Twin Cushioner.Riding on Mansfield Champion white wall tires.Has restored Torrington 11 pedals and Grilled horn tank.Rear carrier with taillight was part of the deluxe package. Entry Submitted by Bill Triplett |
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 | Imperial model 07468 (1938, Colson) - Super rare 1938 Colson Imperial model 07468 almost complete.Missing Delta Firefly reflector and correct aluminum hornlight. Entry Submitted by Bill Triplett |
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 | Imperial Twin-Cushion (1941, Colson) - This is an ad copy for the very rare double suspended Colson "Twin-Cushion" bicycle. The rear of the frame was cushioned in the same manner as the front fork, which was a Colson exclusive design. It is not known exactly how many of these bikes were sold, but we do know it was very few. Only a handful of originals are known to exist. |
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 | Ladies Commander (1930's, Colson) - This is a very nice original bicycle. Top of the line for Colson, it features aluminum fenders and chrome plated chain guard and tank, plus an aluminum torpedo headlight, streamline Persons pedals and New Departure front coaster brake. |
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 | Matador (Evans) - This is a very nice original Evans Matador middleweight bicycle. Evans was the successor to the Colson bicycle company. Evans stopped manufacturing bicycles after 1962. |
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 | Men's Bicycle (1940, Colson) - This months Bicycle of the Month is a 1940 Colson owned and restored by Ted Lusher. Colors are factory original along with the chromed fenders. Very nice bike featuring tube-slats rack, delta Defender tail light, NOS Goodyear G3 whitewall tires and a chrome seat chassis. The leather on the seat is original! Good job Ted! |
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 | Motorbike (1935, Vim Deluxe) - Rare Badge: Vim Deluxe, Vim Cycle Hardware Company, Buffalo NY. Original as found except tires. Entry Submitted by joel robertson |
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 | Olympic (1950's, Evans-Colson) - Fully loaded original Evans-Colson Olympic. Bike features spring "Evanaction" fork, rear carrier with tail light, horn tank, chrome fenders. Evans-Colson bikes were not recieved well by the public and continue to be underappreciated today. This is not to say that they didn't have style though, for this bicycle clearly illustrates that they had g... |
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 | Olympic (1954-55, Evans-Colson) - The Olympic model was the next best bike in the line, second only to the Firebird. Features chrome fenders, Evanaction spring fork, metalic paint, and whitewalls. |
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 | Super Cruiser (1941, Firestone) - This bike is all original and un-restored. This bike was offered in this configuration only in 1941 by Firestone stores. It was manufactured by the Colson company. The "Super Cruiser" was equipped with a spring fork (the Colson Cushioner) and a tail light in the rear carrier. The standard "Cruiser" had no tail light and had a rigid fork and tru... |
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 | Tandem (1940's, Colson) - This months Bicycle of the Month is a Colson Tandem. It features dual horn tanks (not original but they look cool!)and "steer from the rear" configuration which allows you to ride on the rear seat and steer the bike which looks mighty strange when you have no front passenger! This is accomplished by two small sprockets with chains and long rods. ... |
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 | Twin-Flex (Airflyte) - This is the actual "Deathbike". There have been several stories as to how this bike earned it's name and who named it. To the best of our knowledge this bike was so named because it was recalled by Dayton/Huffman which led Firestone to turn to Colson as a bicycle supplier. This was a financial disaster for Dayton/Huffman who had been the sole su... |
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 | Vogue (1938, Colson) - Found in a basement in NY where it was stored since the 40's, only missing the truss rods, which i assume were removed for the basket, this bike is completely original except for new innertubes. it had the original pink ones rotting away inside.
Unique to this bike is a Troxel installation tag bolted to the seat pan, and a few scraps of paper th... |
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 | Vogue (1937, Colson) - Rare original Colson Vogue deluxe ladies bicycle. This bike has several unusual features, most notable is the battery box between the seat tube and the rear fender. The light switch and horn button are on a small round fixture that is mounted on the top tube near the gooseneck. No other bike has this configuration. Other features found on other C... |
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 | World (1947, Schwinn) - This is a all vintage 1947 Schwinn World "hot rod" Made from all period accessories except for the early 60's highrise bars and the custom front drum brake cable.Cool bike that get's the look! Entry Submitted by Gary Johnson.Editors note: Speedometer is a rare Stewart Warner "Meteor", and the Goodyear tag is actually a pre-WW2 accessory that was ... |
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