Kuwahara weirdness
 

What the heck is this thing for? I figure if anyone would know, it'd be the vintage crowd.

http://i787.photobucket.com/albums/y...y/IMG_1283.jpg

It's only on the drive side seatstay, and there's no indication that there was ever a matching tab on the non-drive side that had just broken off. It's on an '88 or '89 Kuwahara Mondia Shasta Road.

http://i787.photobucket.com/albums/y...y/IMG_1200.jpg

http://i787.photobucket.com/albums/y...y/IMG_1198.jpg

Mount for a rear wheel powered generator?

just looks odd since you stretched it with an extracycle Kit

My knee-jerk reaction was "chainguard mount," but that might have made more sense on the mid-stay.

EDIT: Yes, generator mount makes more sense than my theory, and right side is indeed consistent with a country in which folks drive on the left.

I guess something similar came up a couple of days ago. And yeah, it does look a lot like the bottle generator tabs on those old Peugeots in the catalog pics.

It looks odd to me regardless; before buying this bike, my oldest ride was a 2001 Trek MTB. I've never even seen a bike with a bottle generator in real life.

Lead a sheltered life. or dont remember the 60's?

Not everybody is as old as you.

Nice that Social Security is not depending on donations from the Rich ..

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Correct.

Yes Gen mount. Seen on alot of Dutch/euro builds, among others.

The '60's were pretty hazy at the time :50: