OK folks, strictly speaking this one probably isn't vintage, but I'm still curious as to it's rough vintage.

Tonight the wife surprised me with the second worthwhile find in a week from the local transfer station (aka, dump, but not the country dump). Something called a GT Passage.

It's low end, hardnose, hardtail, sloped top tube. Given the tyres, frame layout, I'll call it a hybrid or maybe a city bike. Drivetrain is Shimano 100GS, seven speed (haven't figured out whether it's freewheel or cassette, but I'm guessing the former), quick release only on the front wheel, Shimano Exage hubs. The frame is not the famous GT triple triangle, so I automatically figured early this decade. Except that the chainwheels are Biopace. I thought they disappeared a couple of decades ago.

Sorry, no pics, I just got home about two hours ago. Pumped the tyres up and it's rideable, filthy, has a bit of rust, but it brakes, shifts (after a fashion) and there's nothing that can't be fixed by a stripdown or cleaning. Obviously another Craigslist bait, but the frame is taller than the Raleigh Seneca I'm currently using as my lunchtime commuter, so I'm considering transferring the rack and mudguards, keeping this one and selling the Raleigh instead.

Oh yeah, backing up two paragraphs: Yes, my WIFE saw the bike and grabbed it for me. This is the second one she's brought home in the past four months, and this weekend she's agreed to sit down with me and the couple of flippers I'm finishing to get the short lesson on what it worth picking up from the dump and what is best left.

Some of you may want to mention this to your spouses.