Originally Posted by
juvela
she looks to hail from the 1968-70 time.
That sounds right to me.
Remembering that these bikes are quite old-fashioned, but also that these price-point bikes usually have even more-dated components and frame geometry, with in-house, high-volume manufacturing lines left as-is long enough for the company to amortize development and inventory costs.
Only the bikes sold to discriminating cyclists need to be kept up to date, barring any gross market shift as to a completely different style of bike.
Where the price-point bikes were perhaps ahead of their time was with the addition of "turkey wing" brake levers, wide-ranging chainring gearing (mid-1960's), and, to many of us, the use of clincher tires instead of tubulars.