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[len dowe]

Sure looks like riding. No foot or stands are down.

Mike Love

Sidecar attached...

[Steve Slocombe]

The second photo on the lead item in this thread is of Dot Smith on a knucklehead. It is the cover picture of The American Motorcycle Girls 1900-1950 by AMCA member Chris Sommer Simmons which I can recommend. ISBN is 978-0-9817270-5-9. The only other book I know on the topic is The Woman, the Motorcycle and the Women's Fashion Trends 1894-1915 by AMCA member Aldo Carrer, also recommended, with ISBN 9788886955232, with many period black and white photos captioned in Italian, English and German.

[exeric]

Everyone loves pictures.

[exeric]

More early motorcycles.

[exeric]

More old pictures.

[T. Cotten]

Snagged from somewhere, Folks!

Old photos can tell you a lot about working on Scheblers.

Like tools.

....Cotten

[exeric]

I see a brace, and bit in that photo, Tom. I'll have to add that to my tool box.

[T. Cotten]

I see a brace, and bit in that photo, Tom. I'll have to add that to my tool box.

"Speed wrench", Eric!

Note the socket (instead of a "bit") just to the right of Harley Tool #1

....Cotten

[exeric]

Speaking for myself; I love dogs, and sidecars.

[T. Cotten]

I see a brace, and bit in that photo, Tom. I'll have to add that to my tool box.

Don't forget the logging chain!

....Cotten
PS: I only have an 18" Stillson.

PPS: Is that a zipper on the bib over-alls?

[shermanpup]

These are great photos . Thanks Eric
Jim

[ihrescue]

That's a right big pipe wrench there and as Eric mentioned the presence of the brace. I wonder if they were just staging tools for effect. I suppose you could use a brace with a flat screw bit for speedy disassembly but man that pipe wrench had a bit of leverage in the handle.


Mike Love

[T. Cotten]

That's a right big pipe wrench there and as Eric mentioned the presence of the brace. I wonder if they were just staging tools for effect. I suppose you could use a brace with a flat screw bit for speedy disassembly but man that pipe wrench had a bit of leverage in the handle.


Mike Love

Uhoh.

My No. 901 Stanley brace (patents from '02 to '06) tightens, but ratchets turned left.
I tuned it with Harley tool #1 a few times, but can't figure out how to reverse it.

And my Stillson doesn't have "pipe" teeth.
(Maybe to begin with?)

....Cotten
PS: So when were zippers invented?

[MikeW]

[QUOTE=exeric;175176]Speaking for myself; I love dogs, and sidecars.


Then here's two from New Zealand. A family photo, circa 1930, with dog, left hand sidecar chassis with (probably) locally built sidecar, all on a well-used circa 1923 Harley.

And a scan of a postcard: "NZ Police Patrolman on a 10/12 HP Harley Davidson c. 1923". I've seen the same picture with the bike identified as a 1924 model. Hard to tell whether the front mudguards are "dished" for the pre-24 narrow forks.

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[brettxlch]

This has always been one of my favorites. And close to home as well!!

Ive never seen the rims before, but ill bet good for those roads in those days...