first off, if im posting this in the wrong area, my bad but i tried searching the forums before i decided here.
with that said...
i need help identifying a frame. i found this bike 2 years ago on the side of a fairly busy road in my town. it looked pretty weathered like it was sitting there for a while. it had wheels but no tires. seat post but no seat and the bar tape was just disintegrating off the bars so i decided to bring it home with me. i cleaned it up did minor adjustments to the derailers and shifters, put new tires, seat, and bar tape. the bike is awesome and i fell in love with it quick an it is now my main ride. where i live is very flat and i found myself riding in one gear pretty much all the time. i then decided to convert it into a fixed gear since i was ignoring all my other gears and i was already riding a fixed before i found this bike. so i stripped the bike to the bare frame. decided to upgrade my fork and headset so i got a carbon fork off nashbar and canecreek forty threadless headset. i swaped by bars for a pair of ritchy comp ergo drops. got whole new tires. and new sealed cartridge bb, and new cranks.
while was doing all the fix ups i noticed a few things about the frame that really peaked my interest in figuring out just what kinda frame the universe had given me... first thing was the bottom bracket. its its italian threaded. second was the fork and stem. the fork steerer has a cut down the threads on the back. the o.d of the steerer is 25mm and the inside is 21mm. the stem that was on it was an sr forged stem. i couldnt use any other quill stems on it because they were too big to fit in the steerer and the sr forged one was too small to use on any of my other bikes. so with that i came to the conclusion that it might be an italian frame. the frame had no decals no head tube badge or nothing stamped down under the bb shell. the only stamped parts are the the rear dropouts(suntour) the left side of the seat tube just below the lug(001199) and the seat tube lug(23) all i know is that the 23 is the frame size.
the bike as i found it had some pretty nice components.
t.a specialtes pro5 vis crankset
olympic 64 pedals with cages
suntour cyclone derailleurs
suntour bar end shifters
regina extra oro 6sp freewheel
sr forged stem, sr royal seat post, sr world randonneur bars
mavic red label rims with normandy luxe competition hubs
heres a few pics of the frame and lugs. i hope SOMEONE can help me i.d it... link to what the whole bike looks like since it wasnt letting me upload this image for some reason...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/125914...8/16290450433/









