But you see, I'm bugged by the loosy goosy-ness of it all. You see people do stuff all the time like paint woodwork without a shellac coat so some poor fool has a hell of a time stripping it. Or strip an old violin and varnish it because it will look nicer. People just go do things because they don't bother learning about it first, or they really don't care if they destroy it in the process.

I got some bids on powder coating, and this bike isn't worth it, so I'll let it stay beat up. I don't know if it's important to keep the stickers. I suppose pictures are good enough. It's that SR I posted about in a different thread, but only one SR has been posted with photos, and there have been questions about where they were made and there might even be 2 companies using that name. During that discussion, people wished there were more clues.

Mine apparently is a different model than the others, because I think* it says touring. Mine says Japan, but some of the others didn't. There's so few of them, that I hesitated to repaint it in case someone wants to know which bikes were double butted, etc. It's not a particularly good bike, or an important one, but it is part of the solution to a mystery.

To be honest, all these bikes having braze-ons ripped off makes me a little sad, too. I feel like in 10 years we're going to be paying an extra $200 for a bike's brazeons.

Being this is my first attempt at a restore, I didn't want to approach it irresponsibly.

I like* the idea of painting around the stickers. That's a great idea.