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With all those springs it must have been ridden on some very rough terrain. I can faintly make out a name decal on the down tube. Vic…. Something
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internet search, a German bicycle used during WW1
Herrenrad Victoria with Spring Wheels
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The orginal run flats.
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WWI era - rubber shortage.
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WW1, German
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Sure does.Don't know, but the gear by the pedals looks like Schwinn.
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My father had a vintage Schwinn with a battery powered horn in the false fuel tank (similar to the one seen in the picture above), so that too would lend credence to it being a vintage Schwinn
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It's a 1905 Herrenrad Victoria model 12. The Gewehr 98 was a big tip to tracking it down. It turns out the spring wheels were a result of rubber shortages during the First World War.
onlinebicyclemuseum.co.uk
1905 Herrenrad Victoria with Spring Wheels (used in WW1) – The Online Bicycle Museum
1905 Herrenrad Victoria with Spring Wheels (used in WW1)
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First thing I saw. Era specific.
And the crank gear pattern seemed familiar, Schwinn came to mind but the German one has too many "circles" to it.
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Yeah the crank gear kinda looks like a Schwinn gear with five circles instead of four. The thing that actually set me back on IDing it was the plate on the front tube. I could make it "Vic" and decided the name of the bike must be "Victory" and that kept bringing me back to a 40s model Schwinn called the Victory. It wasn't until I dropped looking for a bike with "Vic" in the name and started focusing on the rifle that made me look for "WWI German Military Bicycles" that I found it.First thing I saw. Era specific.
And the crank gear pattern seemed familiar, Schwinn came to mind but the German one has too many "circles" to it.
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Yes but sometimes it's easy to miss what others post. Happens to me all the time.
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Yup, I totally missed it. I saw the original post and Tom's post, then started looking for the answer.