Originally Posted by
Rotten
I'm hoping you can answer a question I have about the frame. The top tube has a threaded hole, just a single, on the underside about 1/3 of the way down the top tube from the seat tube. Whats its intended purpose?
Shoulder strap for carrying. That's how they did it in the good ol' days.
Regarding your bike's geometry and its slack angles, that is also how they did it in those days. Slack angles and long wheelbases is what everybody produced. Specialized, Peugeot, Schwinn, Trek, even builders like Ritchey. Loonnnng and sloowww compared to what came only a few years later.