Perhaps the most unique Crown bicycle of the teens era was a novelty bike with a wooden "automobile" steering wheel (I have read that the La Porte, Indiana manufacturer of the Crown even equipped one of their motorcycles with such a steering wheel). Now if you are a person of modest means around the turn of the previous century, and think such a bike is the best thing since sliced bread, what do you do? You go to the junkyard, remove a steering wheel from a Model T, and ask the local blacksmith to attach said steering wheel to your bicycle's stem.
That's just what happened to this "Suhaco Special," a bicycle sold in a Supplee hardware store to a young scorcher more than a century ago. I see him in a straw hat and knickers, celluloid collar, and spats.
That's just what happened to this "Suhaco Special," a bicycle sold in a Supplee hardware store to a young scorcher more than a century ago. I see him in a straw hat and knickers, celluloid collar, and spats.
Supplee Hardware Suhaco Special Crown Wannabe ©Daniel Dahlquist