Can anyone indentify this frame
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Old Ned
Old School Grand Master
keithglos":i2rcdftk said:
With the short rear ends, aero fork crown and under bracket cable routing? More like late 80's in my (often wrong!) opinion. Mudguard eyes not often found on a frame like this at that time though. Possibly from a 'trade' builder somewhere in Europe - Holland, Belgium or Italy?
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Jonny69
Senior Retro Guru
Braze-ons, use of allen head bolt and plastic cable guide under the bottom bracket also say at least 80's or later to me. Fork looks 90's as does the headset - earlier forks usually have a crown and the curve is closer to the bottom. Cast drop-outs suggest it's at least a mid-range frame as a bottom end one would have flat pressed drop-outs and a pressed rear brake bridge. Same goes for the cable routing which you would not find on a low-end frame. If you can measure the diameter of the set post it will tell us something about the grade of steel. 25.4mm is normal grade steel, 26.0 is something like Reynolds 501, 27.0 - 27.2 will be Reynolds 531 or similar.
