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Repaint. I may turn it into this, but without the silly basket.

I'm thinking repaint. it's half inch too tall, but I will ride the easy trails with it, would be pointless as a grocery getter since it doesn't have the eyelets, those are gone too. I tapped on the top and bottom tubes and they sound thin, so perhaps this is Tange Prestige.

Serial number under BB, appears to be a 1989.

I scraped the white paint under the crappy blue paint and found the rear brake cable bridge was removed from the stays, there are brass spots. I will proceed to remove paint at the dropouts to see if there were eyelets. I don't know if the factory did this or the previous owner, but I can't...

A prototype !? I acquired this 1989 mystery bike with a 1989 Specialized RockCombo, from what I understand of only 500 were made. I stored these bikes in my hangar for the last 17 years and I just recently brought them out to address restoring them. I am still trying to remember if there was...

My bike could well have had that floating brake hanger on the seat bolt at some point. I am beginning to believe 1989 was S-Works experimental stage. Everything on my frame looks like a Stumpjumper standard or Comp without eyelets, hangers and brake noodle. Perhaps it was made special order...

I removed the paint with acetone in those areas, there are no grind marks or previous weld spots, no eyelets and no welded hangers to speak of. In fact white paint was still there and it looks like Pearl White paint, very indicative of a Stumpjumper. Now I am thinking this was one of those...

Found two pics of serial numbers in the same format on bottom brackets that run horizontally on the BB. Appears S-works had the year stamped in the serial numbers on the S-work steel frames. So my frame was made in 1989. My wheel/hub parts are late 1980's as are the shifters.

That was a good lead. Looks like the S-Works steel, but very early. The 92-95 had the brake line noodle welded under the seat collar, but found a mention that S-works from around 1990 did not have the noodle. If my serial number starts with an 89, then it's probably that model they speak of.

I may have a Suntour hub with Suntour 7sp cassette. Will need to check my stash.

Thanks so much for your help. Frame is definitely made of steel. Third digit in serial is an "L". (see attached pics). I used acetone to wipe paint from the dropout, no evidence of grinding anywhere. Original paint was white. Frame does not have a cable noodle for rear brakes, no evidence...

I will take more pics of the dropouts without the wheel. Dropouts are centered at the end of the stays and like I mentioned before, no eyelets nor evidence that they were removed.

Tomorrow, I will remove the bottom plastic cable guide as the number runs underneath the length of the BB. I did scrape paint and "89" are the first two digits, but it is barely legible. So perhaps it's a 1989? I've researched other BBs online and I see most serials run on the edge of the BB...

I have an even more mysterious Stumpjumper steel frame model, no eyelets and with a 1" steerer, take a look, perhaps you can tell me what it is. Yes, someone erroneously painted this over and perhaps upgraded the components.

Greetings everyone, This bike has me stumped, no pun intended. Can anyone tell me what frame this is and what year? Appears a previous owner updated the components. The steerer is 1" and there are no eyelets of any kind. Seat post is branded Strong, not shown, and post size is 26.4. Frame...