Circa 1920's John "Pop" Brennan Track (Six-Day). Found As Frame. Cleaned, Unrestored.
Found on Ebay by Nick Teodori and listed as an "old track bike." According to Toedori it was rusty & the forks were painted orange. The bike was originally found in Deal, New Jersey by a restoration carpenter who pulled it from the basement of a house he was working on. Accoring to him, he grew up in the area and said the rumor when he was younger was that whomever lived in the house was either in the 28 or 32 olympics. The frame was cleaned and rust removed by Teodori and period correct parts put on.
Brennan, who built many of the bikes for top six-day riders, was located in Irvington, New Jersey. Deal, New Jersey is only an hours drive away. Since Brennan did not use decals on his bikes one has to determine provenance by examining the characteristics of the frame itself. This has all the hall- marks of an early Brennan. The signiture head tube has notches in the top and bottom head lugs as do the top of the fork crown. Apparently the notches were discontinued in later bikes because they were prone to developing stress cracks.