I recently did a radio interview on the Wright bikes and had done some research into it. There seems to be some differing opinions on the details and I am going from memory but here it is.
There is supposed to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 180 to 200 Wright built bikes. They used the St. Clair and Van Cleve names on the bikes and possibly Wright Special (depending on which account you believe).
There are 2 Van Cleves at the Carillion in Dayton, 1 Van Cleve at the Air Force museum and 1 Van Cleve and the only St. Clair at Greenfield Village at the Ford museum. The Van Cleve was the more expensive model of the 2.
Many of the bikes were probably destroyed in the Dayton flood of 1913. There was a trick bike attributed to the Wrights a couple years back on eBay, but it was most likely not. There appeared to be no documentation w/ the bike or any record of the Wrights building a trick bike.
Jeff Archer
First Flight Bicycles
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> Does anyone know if any of the Wright Brothers' bicycles can be found in
> museums? Do they ever come up for sale? Thanks. Charlie
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