Merry Christmas from Don Farmer

Submitted by John on Mon, 11/28/2016 - 20:34

Don Farmer, whom many of you know, asked me to post a couple of Flyte nuggets he found in a 1936 edition of the CCM company magazine VIM, which was recently given to him as a birthday present. Don sends these with Chrsitmas greetings to CCM collectors everywhere.

Transcript of above letter:

                                                                                                                                    Roxy Theatre,

                                                                                                                                            Winnipeg, Manitoba,

                                                                                                                                                     April 30, 1936

 

Dear Mr. Snowdon:

     I wish to say how thankful I am that I purchased a C.C.M. Flyte bicycle.

     I was out doing some practice riding the other day, and coming back to the City travelling at least twenty-five miles-an-hour, with my head down, I ran into the braodside of pf a truck. I was thrown completely over the truck and landed on the other side, but fortunately I was not hurt very badly.

     Much to my surprise, on picking up my Bicycle I found that the only damage was a buckled rim, neither the frame nor forks being bent or twisted in the slightest degree. This speaks volumes for the construction of the Flyte Bicycle.

                                                                                                                             Yours very truly,

                                                                                                                                          Frank Graff 

3 Comments

Submitted by locomotion on Mon, 11/28/2016 - 20:43.

thanks for posting these pictures

both these 1936 Flyte are very interesting, finally we see variants from the catalogue pictures

interesting to see the handlebars and the seat on the first

and the high arch of the top tube on the second bike,

Ken ... have you ever seen anything like that on your #1 and #2?

Submitted by locomotion on Mon, 11/28/2016 - 20:45.

and the second picture talk about the "wish" for the lady Flyte, I wonder what is the progress of the lady Flyte from New Zealand?

 

Submitted by roadworthy on Tue, 11/29/2016 - 19:39.

It appears the frame on the back half of this bike was built for a tall frame model then the top bar curves down to conform to the front half of a  regular frame size.  Flytenstein?  Yet one more example of models that were built and never produced for production. Maybe it was built just for the Pedens. The back of the bike represents Torchy at 6'3" and the front, Doug at 6'?