Maxey

Here's a frame I picked up last year but haven't done anything with it yet. Not much of a mystery to its identification as I'm pretty sure it's a 1976 Sekai Competition, which if I recall correctly wasn't really a race bike, but more of a sport tourer style of bike. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

The seller said he thought that the fork had taken a shunt at some point, which upon examination looks possible. What do you experts say? Crash damage or minor manufacturing flaw? If it is destroyed, it would be a shame really as the fork still has this cool SKV decal on both legs. The frame itself doesn't seem to shown any signs of damage and is pretty well preserved, and as a bonus seems to have originated from the famed Yellow Jersey bike shop. I wonder if they have any Sekai forks in stock?

Anyways, thought I'd post here to add another to the database. Let me know what you crash damage experts think of the fork.









And a few of the fork in question: