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Old 10-06-13, 02:38 PM
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blitherbike
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Bikes: 1976 Fuji Sports 10, 1984 Motobecane Team Champion, 1988 Bianchi Campione d'Italia, 1997 Cannondale F400, 1970ish Montgomery Ward's Elite (Flandria? Libertas? Superia!)

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No problem about hunting for the photo, it was just typically ironic of me to start searching at the beginning of the thread when it was directly above my first post.

I'm really glad you posted these recent pics though. Our bikes had to have been built by the same manufacturer. I've looked at thousands of photos recently (it was driving me mad) and every bike that I've found that has that style and shape of seat-stay crimp also has the stippled dropout (except possibly the American Arrows), plate style chain-stay bridge, and visually identical or nearly identical heat-tube lugs and bottom bracket shell. They've all been built in Belgium, all have been Montgomery Ward Elites, Rapidixes, or American Arrows- which actually say "by Superia" on them. I'm waiting for a response from a former owner of an American Arrow to see if he remembers if it had the stippled dropouts. Here's a link to that thread:http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...9#post16137579

Here's a link to a thread started by a guy who has/had a Rapidix the same color as my MW with identical components: http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...hat-Do-You-Do?

This is another interesting thread about bonderized Superia frames:
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...Frame-Superia?

Your Rapidix is really sharp- I love those hammered fenders and bar-end levers.
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