His company specialises in complex jobs, including aluminium welding. You can see part of his workshop below, where they are building aluminium bodies for exclusive cars, a Voisin and a Bugatti. When I require specialised work on my bicycles, I go to my friend Julian. However, as the forks are also damaged, it’s more likely that this damage has been caused by a front-end shunt.Īs the frame is aluminium, it’s not something we can weld in our workshops. I assumed that, being an aluminium frame, the head is more of a stress point than with a conventional frame. Here you can see the damage to the headstock.
Throughout 2014, work progressed well, but then I found myself so busy with other projects that it got pushed to the back of the workshop …where it remained until April 2020!ġ939 Monark Silver King Flocycle 26X Custom The fork was bent and broken, and the headstock was badly damaged. I started with just the essential parts, the frame and sprocket. Hot rod and custom cars flourished in America before and after the war, so I decided to use them as my inspiration. It was an interim experimental model – interrupted by WW2 – which culminated in a completely different style of Silver King – the Hextube, also with 26″ wheels, introduced in 1946. While the first models had 24″ wheels, in 1939 they made the 26X, so called because it has 26″ wheels. After the initial Flocycles were launched in 1936, the company decided to develop the model further. The 26X is the rarest of the Silver King Flocycles. So I decided to design an interesting custom bicycle for personal use and, as a result, the remains of a Silver King Model 26X became my 2013 winter project. The problem when your hobby is also your business is that it can be hard to separate the two. I worked on so many vintage bicycles each year to put them back on the road in authentic original condition that I needed a diversion. …it’s now 2020, and it’s nearly finished! Moreover, if you search on eBay you will find out that you can buy Monark bicycles on a price range of $60 to $2000, mainly depends on their uniqueness.COLIN’S 2013/2014 WINTER CUSTOM PROJECT: 1939 MONARK SILVER KING 26X As so with other vintage bikes, their prices are varying according to their model, features and condition. Since the production of Monark bikes was ended on the 1960’s, they considered as “vintage bicycles” and their prices went up. In the 1960’s, Huffy have started to produce Monark bicycles under its name.
MONARK SILVER KING BICYCLE PLUS
It has all the good features of previous models, plus a new design and style.įrom balloon tire age to 1960’s, Monark has produced many models. The Silver King is the one of best and last Monark models. One of their main features was lightweight tires, to improve performance. While the style was similar to previous models, Monark focused on new features. To compete with other makers that identified this trend, Monark introduced some stylish, mid weight bicycles for kids. In the 1950’s, children bicycles became very popular as more and more kids started to ride. These features include rear carrier with chrome trim, headlight, dual spring fork and horn tank etc. At these days, Monark’s bikes came with features that made them fast and comfortable. Take a look at this page about the Monark Silver King bicycle model.ĭuring the 1940’s and the 1950’s, Monark Super Deluxe was one of the most famous models of Monark bikes. Some of Monark’s unique features are their distinctive leaf springs that produces flex, spring steel rods inside the aluminum tubing to keep back seat away of the bike frame – to enable a soft ride.Īnother Monark famous model with similar kind of features is Silverking M-137 Wingbar. In 1937, Monark introduced the “Flocycle” with hex shaped handlebar, fork strut tubing, lens, and rear reflectors. produced some finest Monark models, such as Wingbar and Flocycle.
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