This French AFA full suspension Randonneuring Bike was quite an advancement in Comfort & Style in 1955. The Randonneur Bike ” AKA, Hiker to the French ” is a Touring Bike for Getaways with bigger tires and comforts for long travel. This AFA tour bike a early version of the ever so popular Gravel Grinders of today. AFA was a French Bicycle manufacturer who most known for Christophe AFA toe clips, Bike Pumps, Toe Straps, and other bicycle accessories, I suspect this was there jump into the Luxury Bicycle market. The bike has many French advancements, it’s an early fillet brazed steel machine with Suspension that quite amazing. The Suspension is multiple layers of thin spring steel in a circle, oddly it works a lot better that other early suspension designs I have seen. It was very hard to find info on this bike, only noted in a few publications, I am unsure whether it was a full production, bespoke ride, or a show bike, it’s unique for sure.

This is a 1952 Pink and White Schwinn Starlet Ladies Step Thru Fat Tire Ballooner Bicycle. This Classic was one of Schwinn’s Top Ballooner Bicycles Marketed to the Young Ladies. A Classic Vintage Bicycle with Original Style, Superior Chicago Schwinn Quality, Fully Rebuilt and she Rides like a Dream.

Sweet 1958 Schwinn Ladies Step Thru Orange / Red and Cream Deluxe Spitfire Middleweight Bicycle. The color is a Beautiful aged Orange / Red that only time could produce. The bike was originally bright red which is quite rare to find it on a ladies bike, a color mainly reserved for Schwinn Boys bikes. The Deluxe Spitfire was top or the line of the Schwinn Economy Models.

This Stylish bike is a 1917 Wards Hawthorne Deluxe Arch bar or Truss bridge Bike that was made by Arnold Schwinn & Company. There are a few years in the mid to late teens that Schwinn supplied bicycles to the Wards Department stores to be badged their house brand ” Hawthorne “. Early Schwinn are not very common nor are Schwinn built Hawthorne thus making this bike quite a find.

Antique 1948 Wards Hawthorne Comet Fat Tire Tank Bike made by HP Snyder / Rollfast. Bike has Great Rustic Patina and is Totally rebuilt. Looks Rough and Rides nice although they will hear you coming the seat is quite squeaky. One Bad ol Old Rustic Rat!