The Obrien
Gosh this looks cool.
The black looks like a powder coating that has been shot at with a repeater BB gun, and painted over with rattle can, and a very poor job of it as it is. The yellow looks like a powder coat also, it is not chipped up like the black. The yellow is very flaky in spots of the frame, the forks, like the frame are straight, the yellow is solid on the fork just some little scuffing. The tips and dropouts are Giepemmi, English threading. Under bb tube braze on cable guides. The decals are gone from the drive side the non drive is about to pop off with a little help. The Columbus decals as such, the big one on the top tube, I thought was rattle can stensile, is in good shape, the frame one is gone, the forks have some remnants.
I thought it was a Nishiki, this thing was hanging up towards the rafters about ten bikes deep dangling on a dowel suspended from the ceiling on a couple of hooks. This was quite the adventure, one by one, a Dave Scott, a fat tire, a pleated decayed middle frame, a cheap gt mt frame, a forkless raliegh comp, some other no name. Finally me being up on that ladder pulling each off lifting the dowel of the hook pulling frame by frame with the left, replacing the hook, gently placing each in a couple of plies on the rafters I got to it! Just out of my reach, I grab a loose fork. I'm able to hook it and drag to within reach.
A quick glance no not Nishiki, Columbus? Twelve feet down the ladder, and back up again to put all frames back on the the hanging dowel, well you get the point. So guys I'm doing all this at "The Bikery" co-op, risking my life and limbs.
I show to you as found.
Obrien