Originally Posted by
sdn40
That's the quandry for me. The triple crankset says some type of early hybrid, the weight and the steep geometry say road / race.
I have come across a good few road bikes in the early 90s that have 3 ring cranks. The trend seems to have started in the early 90s and lasted into the mid 00s. 15 years of triples on road bikes.
Trek, Univega, Diamondback, Schwinn, Giant, Miyata, etc- all had triple cranks on mid-level road bikes in the 90s(and later)