[4] Clymer was a natural salesman and became the youngest Ford dealer in the USA at age 14, in Greeley, Colorado.
He also published an annual yearbook for the Indianapolis 500 from 1946 to 1968, as well as collections of British car and motorcycle magazine road tests.
Clymer purchased Cycle magazine from Petersen Publishing in July 1957, which had a circulation of several hundred thousand during his tenure to 1966.
The success of these small machines lead to the design and small-run assembly of the Indian Velo 500 from a mix of British drive train components from Velocette, Royal Enfield and Norton, in a specially-commissioned Italian chassis.
While his minicycle line continued, and expanded, into the 1970s, the realization of these full-sized Indian cycles came to a halt when Clymer died of a heart attack in 1970, at age 74.