Originally Posted by rmikkelsen
... As for an earlier comment about the cable routing, are you refering to the top-of-the bottom bracket routing? I didn't think it was that unusual, although I do like the rather elegant way it's done.
Yours is the traditional cable routing, popular through the mid 1970s. Specific brazed-on guides such as yours were probably a bit less common than either clamp-on guides or stops for short bits of cable housing. By 1980, most manufacturers had gone to under-the-chainstay routing, instead.
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