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We have alot of swap meets on the grounds where I work. Last couple of years I've got to know this old codger that swaps old motorcycle parts. I've told him about my BMX collecting and every once in awhile he finds me a little something,never anything good but I always throw him a few bucks for his effort and plus he's one of those old guys that tells great stories from back in the day and he's just all around a really cool old dude. So today we had a little car show in my town and I see a few trailers parked behind the tractors and one of them is his. I track him down because I want my 4 year old son to meet this guy and he says" hey I found some old rims in a storage area under a bed in an old Winnabago I'm scrapping out!" He says there probably junk becuase they're heavy as all hell and the casting is crap and you can't read the letters in the metal... I'm thinking hmmmmmmmmmmm Motomag 1's!!! So as we're walking to his trailer he says they say Moomags on them and or mormags he can't read it, so now my heart is about banging out of my chest. Sure enough we get there and here sits a very clean set of Motomag 1's!!! He shoots me a price which I doubled ,so at least I filled his van up with gas. He wouldn't take any more, old codger probably has a million in the bank! Sorry to babble on,it was just one of those really cool experiences with a guy thats been around the country and seen a little bit of everything.

Anyway the rims are very unique from any MM1's I have ever seen. I'm not an expert but the Simis I've had are first generation and the molds they used at first were obviously better so the letters are easy to read. They also said pat pend on them and had no numbers and they were stamped Simi Calif. The Chatsworth MM1's were second gen and the molds must have been wore out becuase the letters are hard to read and the casting is poor. They also had a serial number on them and the a and the g in motomag were crooked at the end. They were stamped Chatsworth Calif.

The MM1's I got today are Chatsworth 2nd gen, or so I thought. When I got them home I noticed the letters were extremely hard to read, they have a crooked a and g at the end of Motomag and they have a serial number... buttttt they are stamped SIMI CALIF! Either way I'm glad to have them. If anybody out there can explain this mystery I'm all ears!

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Can't figure this one out. I have pics of o.g. frames some have the red first some have the orange first. Look at the 75 catalogue on vintage the second page where they show the two small frames, it clearly looks like the orange is first. Look at bob adorni's stock 75 on the museum, orange first. Maybe it doesn't matter, but I do orange first and it's driving me nuts!!! Pete has an old pic of his 76 he's riding as a kid and that looks like orange first.


This is supposed to be an o.g. paint and sticker frame. ?

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Red or orange, orange or red...

Benny you can paint! Welds look great, inside every gusset,nook and cranny is perfection! Thanks for helping with the paint code research and for taking your time and doing it perfect! This picture does it no justice. I'll take some better ones soon. Thanks again. You truely have a gift.



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Finally got all my parts and a little time to throw this together. Took it for a ride today and it is very smooth. The rims ride like new! I have the O.G. parts for it,the 76 Ashtabula forks and stem and the Schwinn seat but I really wanted to use my Decoster forks and I really like the Slimline Sidewinder and all the old CB stems, wish I had more of them! Hope you dig it!

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Had this one stashed away for awhile. When I first got it I figured it would end up getting painted one day, but all those layers of spray paint saved this old frame! I have never seen another shorty 76, if you know of another let me know.

The mess...
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After some serious stripping and polishing...
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