Originally Posted by Gary Fountain

I don't know much about touring frames but I can see where the bikeshop owner would think it's a touring frame. I think it may be an early to mid 70's frame and I think it may have been set up for bar-end shifters. I wonder what the centre to centre distance is for the dropouts/axles if the rear wheel was in the centre of the rear dropout? What i'm getting at is, does the frame have a long, touring wheelbase? It looks a little short to me - I think it may be around 1020mm. I am thinking that it might have been a racing cyclocross frame.