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[Phil Hackett]

I thought I'd share this:

 

While going through a bunch of old family pictures I came across these photographs of early Cleveland Motorcycles. My Grandfather was a Cleveland, Indian and Reading-Standard dealer as well as a race promoter and participant and these pictures and a ton more of vintage SoCal motorcycle pictures will slowly be scanned in. Some more will be coming over time. Just don't hold me to a schedule....

 

So here goes:

 

 

 

[Michael Rigsby]

Truly innovative motorcycles for their time, and I always marveled at how they had their magneto mounted just ahead of the rear tire.  Shame the market crash killed off the company.  Thanks for the pictures.  Last time I saw one of these was at a museum in south Florida when I was in high school. Though not as flashy as the old Indians, they were very well made for their time.

[DCR]

...Iv been following the new Cleveland Cycle works.They sell some low-buck bikes,with Chinese and or parts from India...There cafe racer/retro looking bikes are in the $3000 range,,and I can see a market for them in todays economy.........The companies owner seems to have a dream of building his own bike someday in America,and it would be great if he could pull it off,but who knows?........Thanks Don

http://www.clevelandcyclewerks.com

[Mark H]

wow! i thought my motorcycle literature and ads where old. thanks for posting!

 

and ive seen pictues of the cleveland cycle works bikes. the misfit (cafe one i think) looks cool but the goofy cheesy looking inverted forks ruin it for me. if they went with a standard fork it would look way better imo. i believe they have chinese Lifan engines which are actually really good engines (from back in my pit bike scene days).

 

id rather have a SYM wolf classic 150.