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Old 08-03-20, 05:30 PM
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^^^^^^ Good eye, that's exactly where the bosses for the Schwinn-style front wheel "lawyer clips" are. The head badge hole spacing made me think Schwinn as well; oddly, I never noticed that the '84 Le Tour frame in my basement has those widow's peak head lugs.

This inspired another close look, and I noticed a few other frame details that might provide clues:

1) Rack mounts incorporated into the seat stays (rather than braze-ons)
2) Some "mystery boss" toward the top of the seat tube. Doesn't appear to be a pump peg.
3) "Top mount" shifter boss, re-purposed as a slip stop for the conventional shifter band.

Edit - per the catalogs on trfindley.com, this pretty closely matches a 1984 Le Tour Luxe - single water bottle braze-on set, top-mount shifters, rack mounts. That mystery boss on the seat tube is the only outlier. http://www.trfindley.com/flschwinn_1...984Ltwt09.html

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