Montgomery Ward
11-13-03 | 08:26 AM
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From: Albany NY
Montgomery Ward
Hi,
I found a Montgomery Ward frame (garbage day find, amazing what people will throw out!), and was hoping to get some information regarding the frame, year, etc. It is a road frame, with Suntour shifters, a Shimano Eagle rear derailleur, cottered cranks, and threaded headset.
The frame looks as if it is from the 70s, olive green, with decals that are shiny metallic, with red and blue stripes (stating "Montgomery Ward"). It has horizontal dropouts, and what looks to be filet brazed tubes (rounded off down tube and top tube joints with head tube). The fork has chromed fork tips, and a chrome lugged crown.
Anybody know this bike, approximately what year and (more importantly for me), what kind of tubing it has (531?). I would like to make it into a nice cross bike, but i don't want to spend too much time on a mild steel frame.
I found a Montgomery Ward frame (garbage day find, amazing what people will throw out!), and was hoping to get some information regarding the frame, year, etc. It is a road frame, with Suntour shifters, a Shimano Eagle rear derailleur, cottered cranks, and threaded headset.
The frame looks as if it is from the 70s, olive green, with decals that are shiny metallic, with red and blue stripes (stating "Montgomery Ward"). It has horizontal dropouts, and what looks to be filet brazed tubes (rounded off down tube and top tube joints with head tube). The fork has chromed fork tips, and a chrome lugged crown.
Anybody know this bike, approximately what year and (more importantly for me), what kind of tubing it has (531?). I would like to make it into a nice cross bike, but i don't want to spend too much time on a mild steel frame.
11-13-03 | 08:47 AM
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From: n.w. superdrome
Bikes: 1 trek, serotta, rih, de Reus, Pogliaghi and finally a Zieleman! and got a DeRosa
Mild Steel? Sorry.
I would say Gas Pipe at best.
Monkey Wards was never known as a hotbed of high
end bikes. Sears on the otherhand did market a nicely
kitted out 531 frame (ted williams brand, or Free Spirit).
The bike would make an ok single speed but I wouldn't spend any more on it.
I would say Gas Pipe at best.
Monkey Wards was never known as a hotbed of high
end bikes. Sears on the otherhand did market a nicely
kitted out 531 frame (ted williams brand, or Free Spirit).
The bike would make an ok single speed but I wouldn't spend any more on it.
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11-13-03 | 02:02 PM
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From: Northern Virginia - just south of the normal people
Sounds nice. Build a unique fixie.
11-13-03 | 07:38 PM
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From: Niagara Frontier, NY
Since Montgomery Ward was a discount retailer which went bankrupt several years ago, I can say with some degree of certainty that this bike is a pile of merde. Suntour did make some shifters for the junk market, and the shimano eagle derailleur would seem to be a replacement part.
My suggestion is this: Take the bike out to the trash can, and leave it there. It's old, heavy, and worthless.
My suggestion is this: Take the bike out to the trash can, and leave it there. It's old, heavy, and worthless.
