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  1. Original post
    Marc
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    I sent this to the NG a few hours ago -- and it has not posted. If it
    double posts, I apologize.

    I have a nice steel touring frame, and I can't seem to figure out who
    manufactured it. It has some very unique quirks to it, so it should be
    identifiable to anyone who has seen one before.

    http://plaza.ufl.edu/randazza/MysteryFrame/

    There is a link to some pictures of it. If anyone can help out, I'd
    appreciate it. I'm not too concerned about value or anything like
    that, but I just think that a lot of care seems to have gone into the
    manufacture of this frame - and that due respect to the builder would
    entail my at least trying to figure out who made it, when, and where,
    so that when someone compliments me on it, I can give credit.

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  2. Werehatrack
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    On 10 Mar 2005 08:25:31 -0800, "Marc" <[email hidden]> may have

    Quoted message said:

    I have a nice steel touring frame, and I can't seem to figure out who
    manufactured it. It has some very unique quirks to it, so it should be
    identifiable to anyone who has seen one before.

    http://plaza.ufl.edu/randazza/MysteryFrame/

    A cable bracket like the one on your BB is on a Taiwanese Schwinn that
    I just cannibalized. Pointy lugs are common. The extra bracket on
    the downtube doesn't ring any bells.

    --
    My email address is antispammed; pull WEEDS if replying via e-mail.
    Typoes are not a bug, they're a feature.
    Words processed in a facility that contains nuts.

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  3. Andy M-S
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    I don't think that emblem will help you ID it (the one on the underside
    of the DT). That looks like one of many braze-ons intended to keep a
    band-on set of shifters from slipping...

    Nice frame, tho.

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  4. Mike Jacoubowsky
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    Quoted message said:

    I have a nice steel touring frame, and I can't seem to figure out who
    manufactured it. It has some very unique quirks to it, so it should be
    identifiable to anyone who has seen one before.

    Most likely it's Japanese, perhaps mid-80s. Posting whatever ID numbers
    (serial number, date code etc) found on the frame might help. What's the
    rear wheel width? That might give some idea of time frame. 120 would be very
    old, 126 perhaps early to mid-80s.

    --Mike Jacoubowsky
    Chain Reaction Bicycles
    www.ChainReaction.com
    Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA

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  5. Marc
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    Mike Jacoubowsky said:
    Quoted message said:

    I have a nice steel touring frame, and I can't seem to figure out


    who

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    manufactured it. It has some very unique quirks to it, so it


    should be

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    identifiable to anyone who has seen one before.

    Most likely it's Japanese, perhaps mid-80s. Posting whatever ID


    numbers

    Quoted message said:

    (serial number, date code etc) found on the frame might help. What's


    the

    Quoted message said:

    rear wheel width? That might give some idea of time frame. 120 would


    be very

    Quoted message said:

    old, 126 perhaps early to mid-80s.

    --Mike Jacoubowsky
    Chain Reaction Bicycles
    www.ChainReaction.com
    Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA

    Serial number is 1905261.

    I'm pretty sure that it is a 126mm frame.

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  6. Mike Jacoubowsky
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    Quoted message said:

    Serial number is 1905261.

    I'm pretty sure that it is a 126mm frame.

    Drat. I was hoping for a date or manufacturing facility code. The width says
    late 70s-late 80s.

    --Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
    www.ChainReactionBicycles.com

    "Marc" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:


    Mike Jacoubowsky said:
    Quoted message said:

    I have a nice steel touring frame, and I can't seem to figure out


    who

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    manufactured it. It has some very unique quirks to it, so it


    should be

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    identifiable to anyone who has seen one before.

    Most likely it's Japanese, perhaps mid-80s. Posting whatever ID


    numbers

    Quoted message said:

    (serial number, date code etc) found on the frame might help. What's


    the

    Quoted message said:

    rear wheel width? That might give some idea of time frame. 120 would


    be very

    Quoted message said:

    old, 126 perhaps early to mid-80s.

    --Mike Jacoubowsky
    Chain Reaction Bicycles
    www.ChainReaction.com
    Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA

    Serial number is 1905261.

    I'm pretty sure that it is a 126mm frame.

    Report
  7. Larry Coon
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    Marc said:

    I have a nice steel touring frame, and I can't seem to figure out who
    manufactured it. It has some very unique quirks to it, so it should be
    identifiable to anyone who has seen one before.

    That diamond cutout in the lug rings a bell. Miyata?

    Larry Coon
    University of California

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