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Just got her home and had to take a few pics of tonight score to share. Looks to be a 78/79 26" Champion Squareback. Serial #74 on the BB. I'm not sure how many of these were made or if the serial # can correctly date the frame as a 78 or 79. If you have any info or educated guesses on the mfg date, please chime in

The bike is outfitted w/ a sweet Atom rear drum hub on some fat chrome hoop, Tange TX 1200 forks, 1st gen Tuf Neck and unknown cruiser bars. The rest of the stuff is 80's-90's MTB stuff. Looks like it was originally black under the white rattle can paint.

So, I need help w/ the ID on the bars. The bars are 30" wide w/ a 6" rise. 4" center to center, on the cross bar. The knurling spacing is super wide. Not sure what type of stem/clamp these were designed for. Any help on the identification of the bars will be much appreciated.

My 1st 70's cruiser. Can't wait to restore and build this beauty. She's a keeper for sure

its-all-good · 2012-11-08 9:49pm

Sweet pick up!!! Thrift store? Yard Sale?? CL???

Johnnny · 2012-11-08 9:55pm

That's awesome. Looking forward to see what you do with it.

vinro4416 · 2012-11-08 9:56pm

You do very well with your scores! Those bars look like motorcycle/mx bars.
With your luck, you'll strip the paint and find a nickle frame you can polish up!

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king stinger · 2012-11-08 10:02pm

Nice find !!!
+1 on the motocross bars,the wide knurling is for the motorcycle clamping on the tripple clamp fork.

TXBONE · 2012-11-08 10:04pm

king stinger wrote:
Nice find !!!
+1 on the motocross bars,the wide knurling is for the motorcycle clamping on the tripple clamp fork.

Yes on the bars. Almost like a kos shape to them too. Rad score. that thing looks like it has a 26 inch rear and a 24 inch front wheel.

king stinger · 2012-11-08 10:07pm

My friend ran Rickman Motocross bars on his Champion bitd,they were pretty nice.

Erole99 · 2012-11-08 10:09pm

larock · 2012-11-08 10:11pm

Wow! That is amazing.

Snyderman · 2012-11-08 10:14pm

Bike came from a buddy that works at the largest scrap yard in Nor Cal.

I kind of figured they were MX bars w/ the spacing and deep knurling. No matter, their staying w/ the build. Cool enough for me.

Dont think they plated this in nickel Vin but I'll take some chrome under the paint

Thanks for the kind words guys. Im super stoked!

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squirrelsmith · 2012-11-08 10:18pm

this is the kind of stuff you dont see often

Snyderman · 2012-11-08 10:18pm

TXBONE wrote:
king stinger wrote:
Nice find !!!
+1 on the motocross bars,the wide knurling is for the motorcycle clamping on the tripple clamp fork.
Yes on the bars. Almost like a kos shape to them too. Rad score. that thing looks like it has a 26 inch rear and a 24 inch front wheel.

Yep, that's some 24" wheel from the 90's up front. LOL. Gonna have to find a new front wheel for sure. Rear wheel and hub are staying put. Just have to convert it to a single speed cog. Hope I can find a cog for that hub.

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Scraplord · 2012-11-08 10:24pm

Awesome score!
That Tuf-Neck looks like it`s in good shape. A little paint remover and you should have a real gem.

TXBONE · 2012-11-08 10:27pm

Snyderman wrote:
TXBONE wrote:
king stinger wrote:
Nice find !!!
+1 on the motocross bars,the wide knurling is for the motorcycle clamping on the tripple clamp fork.
Yes on the bars. Almost like a kos shape to them too. Rad score. that thing looks like it has a 26 inch rear and a 24 inch front wheel.
Yep, that's some 24" wheel from the 90's up front. LOL. Gonna have to find a new front wheel for sure. Rear wheel and hub are staying put. Just have to convert it to a single speed cog. Hope I can find a cog for that hub.

That may be tough locating a cog for that hub.

I keep returning back to this thread looking at this thing. Awesomeness.

king stinger · 2012-11-08 10:39pm

Snyderman wrote:
Bike came from a buddy that works at the Alco Metals which is the largest scrap yard in Nor Cal.

I kind of figured they were MX bars w/ the spacing and deep knurling. No matter, their staying w/ the build. Cool enough for me.

Dont think they plated this in nickel Vin but I'll take some chrome under the paint

Thanks for the kind words guys. Im super stoked!

Wow,so did someone scrap it?

KickBackCycles · 2012-11-08 10:39pm

Awesome find!
The rear rim is a worksman.

larock · 2012-11-08 10:39pm

Snyderman wrote:
TXBONE wrote:
king stinger wrote:
Nice find !!!
+1 on the motocross bars,the wide knurling is for the motorcycle clamping on the tripple clamp fork.
Yes on the bars. Almost like a kos shape to them too. Rad score. that thing looks like it has a 26 inch rear and a 24 inch front wheel.
Yep, that's some 24" wheel from the 90's up front. LOL. Gonna have to find a new front wheel for sure. Rear wheel and hub are staying put. Just have to convert it to a single speed cog. Hope I can find a cog for that hub.

The Atom Hub takes a standard threaded freewheel. I have a 22t Suntour on mine. All you have to do is resize the spacing and you are good to go. Here is a pic of mine on my Gurney Monoshock.

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Snyderman · 2012-11-08 10:57pm

larock wrote:
Snyderman wrote:
TXBONE wrote:

Yes on the bars. Almost like a kos shape to them too. Rad score. that thing looks like it has a 26 inch rear and a 24 inch front wheel.
Yep, that's some 24" wheel from the 90's up front. LOL. Gonna have to find a new front wheel for sure. Rear wheel and hub are staying put. Just have to convert it to a single speed cog. Hope I can find a cog for that hub.
The Atom Hub takes a standard threaded freewheel. I have a 22t Suntour on mine. All you have to do is resize the spacing and you are good to go. Here is a pic of mine on my Gurney Monoshock.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b83/L … C_3618.jpg

Thanks man. I truly appreciate the info. I was gonna hit you up about the hub anyway. I know your Gurney has one. Someone had a 26" Littlejohn w/ front and rear Atom hubs w/ a Matthews fork. That was a sick loking set up. These Atom hubs look pretty sweet cleaned up.

Snyderman · 2012-11-08 11:01pm

king stinger wrote:
Snyderman wrote:
Bike came from a buddy that works at the Alco Metals which is the largest scrap yard in Nor Cal.

I kind of figured they were MX bars w/ the spacing and deep knurling. No matter, their staying w/ the build. Cool enough for me.

Dont think they plated this in nickel Vin but I'll take some chrome under the paint

Thanks for the kind words guys. Im super stoked!
Wow,so did someone scrap it?

He didn't say and i dont ask but I'm pretty sure it was headed for the scrap pile. Their pretty anal about taking anything out of the scrap piles so he keeps things under the cuff

Unbeliveable the stuff that goes through that yard. So many classic cars. They even have one of the full size Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaurs from the first Jarassic Park movie. Still has all the robotics and all inside. The owner held on to that piece

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route66 · 2012-11-08 11:11pm

Snyderman wrote:
larock wrote:
Snyderman wrote:

Yep, that's some 24" wheel from the 90's up front. LOL. Gonna have to find a new front wheel for sure. Rear wheel and hub are staying put. Just have to convert it to a single speed cog. Hope I can find a cog for that hub.
The Atom Hub takes a standard threaded freewheel. I have a 22t Suntour on mine. All you have to do is resize the spacing and you are good to go. Here is a pic of mine on my Gurney Monoshock.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b83/L … C_3618.jpg
Thanks man. I truly appreciate the info. I was gonna hit you up about the hub anyway. I know your Gurney has one. Someone had a 26" Littlejohn w/ front and rear Atom hubs w/ a Matthews fork. That was a sick loking set up. These Atom hubs look pretty sweet cleaned up.

That Gary LittleJohn was Suicyco's bike. It was awesome.

I would date your Champion as a 78, your does not have a drilled brake bridge making it any earlier year model. The two digit serial number is interesting. Both of the squareback frames I have had have 6 number serial numbers Like 0109XX

Congrats on an absolutely awesome score. IMHO the squareback 26" is one of the most stylish cruisers ever made.

Snyderman · 2012-11-08 11:19pm

route66 wrote:
Snyderman wrote:
larock wrote:
The Atom Hub takes a standard threaded freewheel. I have a 22t Suntour on mine. All you have to do is resize the spacing and you are good to go. Here is a pic of mine on my Gurney Monoshock.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b83/L … C_3618.jpg
Thanks man. I truly appreciate the info. I was gonna hit you up about the hub anyway. I know your Gurney has one. Someone had a 26" Littlejohn w/ front and rear Atom hubs w/ a Matthews fork. That was a sick loking set up. These Atom hubs look pretty sweet cleaned up.
That Gary LittleJohn was Suicyco's bike. It was awesome.

I would date your Champion as a 78, your does not have a drilled brake bridge making it any earlier year model. The two digit serial number is interesting. Both of the squareback frames I have had have 6 number serial numbers Like 0109XX

Congrats on an absolutely awesome score. IMHO the squareback 26" is one of the most stylish cruisers ever made.

Thanks for the info. The serial # is actually five numbers on mine 1007x. I just knew they didn't make 10,000 of these frames in the late 70's so I assume it's #7x. All the other ones I saw online had the six digit serial # all starting w/ zero.

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Eman · 2012-11-09 3:31am

That's very cool,never seen one before.

BluWebco · 2012-11-09 3:41am

Sweet find! Kinda strange that the derailleur is on the inside of the rear drop out - never have seen that. Spacing between the rear drops must be pretty wide. Very cool!

Joe Buffardi · 2012-11-09 5:31am

Very cool!!!

freedo · 2012-11-09 5:44am

Sweet!

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