Discovered an intriguing mystery frame at the bike coop. Painted over with a brush, so impossible to get info from the paint and decals (though it does have a City of Fort Wayne bike license on it). Some components, no wheels. Not sure what was original.
Largish size fillet brazed frame. Pretty light. Forged cutout rear drops with no name that I could find; cross-hatch knurling in the clamp area. Integral der hanger and one eyelet. Fastback seat stays. TA (?) crank (drive side only
). Pentagonal cable stop doohickey under the downtube. One braze-on FD cable stop on the left side of the downtube and a RD stop on the chainstay. RD cable guide on bottom bracket. Brazing is a little sloppy. Straight tubular chainstay bridge and brake bridge. Seatpost is no smaller than just about 27 mm (I have english-only manual calipers). Press-fit sealed BB bearings. BB SN 553198.
Bike has been repainted (quite inexpertly) several times, but on the bb, there are traces of what look like original paint ... the color is red.
That's about it. Headset is knurled in a diamond pattern. Fork is a dead ringer for a Schwinn Continental (alll chrome) and steerer has been sawn off at a non-90-degree angle, so I'm betting it's a relacement. Joins at head tube look like maybe there was a crash in this bike's past. Other components that are one it are bike boomy and I have no idea if they were orig: Shimano Titlist FD, Weinmann brakes and levers (with gum hoods and black rubber lever covers--no suicide levers). It did have bar-end shifters, but someone seems already to have harvested those.
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