This add shows a second CYC BMX model. Not sure who made this Monoshock. The add doesnt say but I don’t believe CYC was yet making their own bikes. Maybe one of you guys older than dirt may recall what brand this is or one of you willing to do some research. I checked and its NOT a Matthews frame set.
CYC Distributing was created to sell MX then BMX parts to dealers. At first they would build complete bike kits also. They called their complete bike kits, Stormers. One model say a Stormer based on a Redline frame, would be CYC part number BMX-20RLM. In the fall of 1975 that would begin to change. AAA Products was making a frame called a Rascal. In September it would launch an all new version. This looptail would be sold under the CYC Stormer name in October 1975. The bike would be tested in 1976 by “Bicycle Motocross News”.
This second advertisement for CYC shows a rigid Littlejohn frame. Perhaps the monoshock in the previous ad is also a Murphy-Littlejohn.
This is the earliest CYC advertisement I could find. The ad appeared in the March 1975 issue of “Bicycle Motocross News”, shows a monoshock bike called the Stormer. You cant get a good view of the bike to tell if it is another companies monoshock with CYC stickers. The advertisement points out that CYC Motocross was started 3 years earlier. So CYC dates back to 1972! But it is not clear if they meant they were doing Motorcycles untill there first monoshock released in 1975.
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 | claude on February 1976 advertiseme… |
