Cleveland

Here is an old one for ya. I have no idea what year it is but it is called a Cleveland. The thing that makes this cool is the mechanical parts. Check out the Speedo drive gear set-up in the middle picture not to mention the motor a straight 4 cylinder, crazy. Here is what I could find out about the company courtesy of Bikernet.com


"According to the 'Encyclopedia of the Motorcycle' by Hugo Wilson Clevelands were built by Egerton Price in Middlesborough, England, from 1911 to 1914 using Precision engines. Freddie Dixon made his TT debut in 1912 aboard a Cleveland machine. Then in 1915, the Cleveland Motorcycle Manufacturing Co. began production of a 13.5 cubic inch, two-stroke single with in-line crankshafts and chain final drive in the United States. Later, capacity was increased to a whopping 16.5 cubic inches and they sold well. In 1922, Cleveland bought the Reading Standard Co., and in '24 a 21.5 cubic inch side-valve single was introduced. It bombed. In 1925, a 36.5-inch, four-cylinder machine, based on the Fowler Four design, was introduced. It failed to compete with larger-capacity Henderson and Ace fours. In 1926, a redesigned 45-inch four appeared and subsequently a 61-inch version, but despite the fine quality injected into each model in 1926, the company was forced out of business when the stock market crashed"