Found a late 80s/early 90s Japanese "touring" bike (don't remember the manufacturer or model, it's outside in the shed and it's dark right now) in the garbage a couple of weeks ago. Lugged steel frame and hot red color, garbage or not I wanted it! I guess it's an early attempt at a hybrid bike - 26" (like mountain bike 26", not those faker hybrid 26" wheels with the fractional and not decimal width) wheels, flat mtb-diameter bar, Shimano thumb shifters (yay!). It's almost had it's "overhaul" (I left most of the rust on as I decided this will be my beater now), just needs new shifter cables. I promise to post photos. A weird thing about the bike is the cable routing technology - originally it had downtube shifters, the clamp for these now serves to route the cables to two steel sheets rolled at the top in the form of curved half-pipes to direct the cables at an angle. Also amazing was the fact that despite the seatpost (fluted too! what a find!) having a thick layer of aluminium oxide near the end of the seat tube, it pulled out with almost no effort - turns out the inside of the seat tube had caught a lot of overspray when the frame was painted, which prevented the seatpost from binding! I wish more frame manufacturers would paint their frames that way. It also had the stereotypical junk bike rusted-solid chain. It had almost no wear on it. I tried to see if I could make it into the world's rustiest working bicycle chain, but even after lots of work a good third of the links are stiff. I abandoned the idea. I suggest this to anyone looking to try the same.