Scott on display

 This beauty seen at the Paris Vintage Rally a few years back. Update. It's a 1927 model, according to an authority; 

"1927 was the first year with the sloping shoulders to the main front fork legs which were also wider than the earlier ones.  They continued making the 2-speed Super into 1930 just due to its devoted followers. 

Looking at the Scott photo I noticed that it has had a twin leading shoe brake conversion.  I am surprised that with this it hasn't bent the fork legs.  I sent a drawing of the forks showing the construction.  The lower bearing for the legs, which are only 3/4" diameter, is a bronze casting with a spherical seating clamped in the main support legs.  This combined with having the torque arm fixing halfway up the sliding leg has the effect of bending the leg between it's two supports as the bike tries to carry on when the brake is applied in anger.  The first Super Scotts had 6" Webb brakes but fashion dictated that 7" brakes were fitted in 1927 and this problem became apparent.  They quickly reverted to the smaller one and did a redesign for the Flyer models producing what is known as the Kite forks which are a reinforced version of the earlier ones.