![]() ![]() You can carefully clean these up with a small piece of silicon carbide abrasive paper and/or steel wire wool. The rims will be aluminium not steel and the only parts which could rust would be the eyelets around the spoke nipples. The inner tube is sewn inside the light tyre casing, which is glued onto the rim with tubular cement "Colle a boyeaux" (If the brand is labelled in French). Standard tyres and tubes will not fit on these rims. These fit on special rims, which you have. The bike's got a steel frame, simplex derailleurs, brooks saddle, tube tires.Īs Sloar has said, your tyres are tubular not clincher. The only picture with the same frame design that I have managed to find anywhere is here: The looks of this bike has some similarities to the light blue Monark 90320 (and 319) of which there are plenty of pics and infos online, but I can't find anything on this particular model anywhere, so if anyone has any ideas or infos I'd just love to hear more! I am on a budget though, so I'm certainly not looking to upgrade everything with this bike. Tires have no inner tubes (haha I didn't know they even used these things in road bikes) and the wheels are rusty - they are the first thing I'm going to change. I love the design so even though this one's in a pretty rough condition, I just couldn't pass it up and would like to restore it - might even make it a single-speed and repaint it, haven't decided quite yet. I was recently given this Swedish Monark road bike for free, a relative had no use for it. According to the seller, the engine hasn’t been run in quite some time and won’t currently turn over, but this could be a cool restoration piece or left as is in its original patina.įind this Albin-Monark for sale in Langebrück, Germany with an unmet opening bid of $9,990 here on eBay.Hi! New to this forum - and new to vintage bikes as well. This particular 1942 Albin-Monark M/42 500 is 100% original, wearing what’s left over of its factory paint and accessories. ![]() Half-a-decade earlier, Monark entered 8 bikes in the 1954 ISDT and went home with eight gold medals. ![]() The company actually used the same half-liter Albin single originally developed for the military, stuffed it in a motocross bike, tuned it, and had Sten Lundin ride it to a 1959 500cc World Motocross Championship title. Monark was also fairly successful in the off-road racing scene for a period as well. After the war, the M/42 remained in service into the 1960s.įollowing the war, the Varberg-based outfit became the biggest motorcycle company in Sweden. For around two months starting in August of ’42, Sweden’s Army Administration carried out what it reportedly called the “Tvkers TT”, which consisted of abusing the bike in all sorts of ways such as keeping it pinned at its maximum speed for an hour at a time. Supposedly another 100 or so examples were built after the war using spare parts too.īefore becoming Swedish Defense’s first “standard issue” motorcycle, the M/42 was rigorously tested. The vast majority of the units produced (about 3,000) featured an OHV setup, though around 300 (15hp) side-valve versions were built which also reportedly used hardtail frames. The M/42 supposedly featured two fuel-cells a larger normal unit and a smaller tank for higher-octane fuel for cold-starting the bike. ![]() Powering the bike was a 20hp, four-stroke, 495cc single-cylinder engine married to a three-speed gearbox, both built by Albin. The front suspension consisted of a parallelogram-style unit with coil springs while out back there was a plunger-style setup. It had a hybrid stamped steel/tubular chassis based on that of Husky’s 112TV. What resulted was the 1942 Monark-Albin M/42. In 1935, the Swedish Army asked Husqvarna to build them a rugged, all-terrain military moto, but Husqvarna was already so bogged down with other contracts at the time that it was forced to decline, leading to Monark getting the assignment. Despite being a neutral country in the Second World War, Sweden couldn’t help but notice Germany’s onslaught into other European nations, and wanted to be prepared if and when an attack occurred. However when WW2 broke out, Monark was called upon by the government to start building military motorcycles. Monark went on making bikes through the 1930s, refining its existing models and introducing a few news ones along the way, including a moped powered by a 98cc ILO mill. In 1927 the business began selling models - 250cc and 600cc side-valves and overhead valves - under the Monark name after the firm’s parent company became Monark Crescentbolagen, or MCB. From 1913 to 1926, the bikes were branded as as Esse Motorcycles, the majority of which used Blackburne engines. Post Sale Update: This Albin-Monark sold for $9,990 after 1 bid on eBay in Langebruck, Germany.įounded by industrialist Birger Svensson in 1908, Monark was a Swedish company that produced bicycles, mopeds, and starting in 1913, lightweight motorcycles. ![]()
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