Originally Posted by
corrado33
The person who donated it had cut both stays on the drive side with what looked like a bolt cutter.
Cut both drive-side stays? Did they not have a chain breaker, and wanted to get the chain off? So strange.
Originally Posted by
Charles Wahl
If it has older Simplex dropouts like this
Please send them to me! I have a project which needs the drive side rear one.
I have
this mid-70s PR-10 with a cracked seat lug and the other shown cosmetic defects/molestations. I was going to send it to [MENTION=365306]nesteel[/MENTION] last year for shipping cost until I started tearing it down and realized ... in addition to what's pictured in the thread, the steerer tube had at least 4-5 threads totally gouged out from someone running the headset too loose for too long w/o fixing it. A threaded headset would never run tight again without repairing it.
I never want to ship something a fellow BF'er might consider 'garbage' on receipt, so I reached out and we both decided to hold off on shipping. I feel like I let another member down when I shipped a Trek with a broken DO cross-country a few months prior, didn't want to have the same experience. Up to the attic it went...
I think the
PR-10 frame could be salvaged by a BF'er with frame experience like [MENTION=381793]gugie[/MENTION] but it's been sitting in my attic ever since.
I've also got a mid-80s burgundy PH501 in my attic with the newer style Simplex DO, but it's got a gnarly dent on the TT. The DO stylings changed (IIRC) in the first of the '80s.