Cyclone production numbers

[Chuck#1848]

So it would be true to say that Cyclone did produce more than half a dozen or so motorcycles how many just isn't known or truely documented.
I always thought that they only made racers and hill climbers so I managed to learn a bit more about them finding out that street bikes were made to.
And they may have possiably also come in another color besides yellow maybe blue or? black even.

Herb,Would you know if a racer would change the color of a factory race bike or would that kind of like go against the factory wishes back in the day?

Did Cyclone fund any racers?

[BEK]

1914 blue cyclone

I found Daniel Statnekov's website with pictures of his 1914 blue Cyclone.

http://www.statnekov.com/motorcycles...os-frames.html

Just scroll down on the left side of the page to the 1914 Cyclone for pictures.

[Chuck#1848]

Thanks Bruce,
According to the article that blue Cyclone was in Oley in 1997 and recieved the Red Wolverton award for the best restored motorcycle at the meet.

I gotta believe that someone must have snapped a shot of that in 97, I am gonna have to dig out the old magazines from 97 tonight

[pem]

Thought I would share this with you guys. November 6, 1914 Racine-Journal News article
in which Fred Joerns, president of the Joerns Motor Mfg. Co. wrote to the Racine Commercial Club about possibly moving to Racine next season. Ya gotta blow it up to read it. Hopefully one of you guys can use the info.

Dick

[HarleyCreation]

So it would be true to say that Cyclone did produce more than half a dozen or so motorcycles how many just isn't known or truely documented.
I always thought that they only made racers and hill climbers so I managed to learn a bit more about them finding out that street bikes were made to.
And they may have possiably also come in another color besides yellow maybe blue or? black even.

Herb,Would you know if a racer would change the color of a factory race bike or would that kind of like go against the factory wishes back in the day?

Did Cyclone fund any racers?

To me it appears they may have made more racers than street bikes, but I have no solid evidence except the racers seem more common back then.

A racer could change a machine's color whether the factory approved or not, but it seems unlikely he would bother. I do know that the Cyclone was described as being "yellow" at the time, but that doesn't mean other colors weren't tried.

I think funding racers was what killed Cyclone (among other things). It seems that they believed if they fielded some factory racers and won some races the world would beat a path to their door. But it didn't work out that way. The bike couldn't take the "long grind" (nor even the short grind!) and failed to make big wins.

Then the economy was hit very hard in late 1914 and '15 by the war in Europe and credit was hard to get and prices began rising. Like so many other makes, Cyclone was a casualty of the Great War!

I was wrong about the Cyclone being sold in Rochester. This one was sold in May of 1915 in Cincinnati. That is, it was delivered as a demonstrator. Where did that one go?

Still working on the correct race date. I'm close I think. The spy, I wish I could say. But I'm sure we do know him.

[HarleyCreation]

Thought I would share this with you guys. November 6, 1914 Racine-Journal News article
in which Fred Joerns, president of the Joerns Motor Mfg. Co. wrote to the Racine Commercial Club about possibly moving to Racine next season. Ya gotta blow it up to read it. Hopefully one of you guys can use the info.

Dick

A good find.

How ironic. The "industrial building" (still standing) in Racine mentioned as a new possible home for the Cyclone was also where Pennington built The Motor Cycle while in Racine in 1895 and where he took out a patent on the long mingling spark. The Mitchell motorcycle (1901-05) was built just a few blocks away.

Not to mention Racine is my hometown.

[jurassic]

i found this picture in my stuff,not sure who owns it.

[jurassic]

[RichO]

Cyclone

Daniel Statnekov had two, one blue and one yellow. Otis Chandler had a yellow road model also that had a sidecar affixed. That's Lane's in the photo. That's three road models I know of and five racers. I also know of at least three loose motors. We're close to a dozen. Hard to believe they only made that many. But how many real eight valve Indians, eight valve Harleys, or DAH's were built.

[jurassic]

Daniel Statnekov had two, one blue and one yellow. Otis Chandler had a yellow road model also that had a sidecar affixed. That's Lane's in the photo. That's three road models I know of and five racers. I also know of at least three loose motors. We're close to a dozen. Hard to believe they only made that many. But how many real eight valve Indians, eight valve Harleys, or DAH's were built.

recently urban hirsch had his racer put back to a road model .i saw it a few weeks ago.its nice. does that makes 4 road models?

[Barry Brown]

nice repop???

[sveger]

Cyclones around

Regarding who have Cyclones, from looking at his blog there seems to be one in Jeff Deckers position too.

Sverre
http://AmericanMotorcyclesNorway.blogspot.com

[jurassic]

it is a repop ,but its 1/3 scale. handmade by a guy in san diego .he's only made 3 that i know of.it took me a year to get mine ,and i'll never part with it as long as i live .fantastic workmanship,and it runs great too.

[sveger]

Scaled engine

Oh my! I would say that your scaled Cyclone motor was a toy I would have found room for.

Make a youtube video when its running if or when there is time.

Sverre
http://AmericanMotorcyclesNorway.blogspot.com

[HarleyCreation]

What a fabulous but expensive-to-produce way of doing things. The only shaft missing is one to the rear wheel.