For free at one of the stores of our lbs chain, opinions?

This is going to be my first road bike, technecally second but the other one is way too small to ride at 45cm.

Hope your tall enough for this one. Looks to be late 80's. Welded true temper steel. Looks like a solid frame.

It will be expensive to build from the ground up but age appropriate parts are pretty cheap.

is it me or does it look like something weird is going on at the rear dropout?

I was wondering too

Looks like an attempt at welding? Or some silly putty holding it together?

OP, might want to get to the bottom of that before you put a lot of money in the frame.

It looks like any number of very common stripped Fuji Frames which I see from time to time in Brooklyn NY. The Fuji's are tied to street lamps etc. and devoid of components. I can only assume no one gives a toss about steel Fuji frames?

Yeah they cracked the rear drop out and tried to JB Weld it. Thats why it was free. I am 6'4 it is 55.88cm. Im not dropping my bank account in to it. Just a decent group for it and some velocity wheels. I cant say Ill be easy on it nor am I light.

I would not ride a bike with a JB Weld repaired dropout. Find a frame builder and get it fixed. TANSTAAFL (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch) Robert A. Heinlein

+1 on that JB Weld will not hold up get it fixed right if you plan on using it!

Equivalent to duct tape and some twist ties. You really want to put good parts on a broken frame then ride it ? Bad idea. There's a reason framebuilders do not use hardware store glue.
It can be fixed properly with a torch and some silver or brass. Stop by (give me a days notice), or find someone local.
Or salvage the BB, then look for a better frame.

Im not dumb enough to ride a broken frame, previous owner did it and left it at the shop when it didnt work. Im going to have it fixed before i do anything to it. Going to be in search of a threadless fork.

Disagree.

I once used JB Weld to seal a cracked engine block (89 Chevy Lumina). It ran great, for another year (+14,000 miles) before I finally sold it.

If JB Weld could withstand the extreme hot/cold of the North East weather, plus the extreme hot/cold of the daily use of a motor - surely, it can surely hold a single rider on a bike.

Depending on if the repair was done well.

I'm really surprised that the LBS would even give this frame out for free. Liability. Big time liability.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying the recipient would have good reason, since he was informed of the condition. But people can (and will) sue over anything!

This frame is a horrific dog. There I said it. Somebody had to. Can't you find something nicer that would justify the parts you are considering to put on it? What joy will there be in the one you are showing us? Free isn't justification enough.

Hilarious and true...Fuji's finest...double FF FTW.

I have to say, I go back a long way with Fuji. In the 80's they did very respectable brazing of lugged frames. Their steel frames always provided very good value for the money in those days. This one could be resurrected. of course, with competent repairs and a fine repaint, but I don't get the sense that is what OP is planning.

+1 on the horrific dog aspect of that frame.

I know the frame was free but wouldn't it be cheaper to just pick up a bike off of CL for a couple hundred max , than to fix that frame and do a full build up?

Probably end up with better bike I'd think too. Just a thought unless your in love with this one.

Free garage art.

Ok you stick with JB Weld for your repairs, it works for some apps but I would not tell anyone to use it in this case, OP glad to here you are going to have it welded

Assuming the frame can be adequately repaired, I wouldn't spend any more $ than it takes to make it into a SS/FG. It would be a fun SS/FG, but anything more than that is polishing a turd, IMO.

Make it a backup/cheapy bike. Don't dump a bunch of $$$ into it, make it a training bike, or a knock around town bike.

Im not dumping money in to it. Im not going to be racing it or anything. Its just going to be what it is- a road bike. Its going to have a seat, drops, brakes and multiple speeds. Its not getting 4000$ campy groupsets and carbon wheels, hubs and aerospokes. Its not getting tubular tires touched by Zues. Its going to be another bike that I can ride, yall are overestimating this build. Think; Tour De Gas Station, not Tour De France. Basically, out of my 4 mtbs, 2 beach cruisers, 1 trike, and whatever my sears&roebuck is, ive gotten a road bike just to say I have one- like 90% of the people I see one them.

Its getting parts that allow me to ride it and hooefully keep the red/black theme. And its an effing Fuji, it may not be the best Fuji but it was free and its my size and it isnt a schwinn letour somebody wants 300$ for on CL. maybe one day, I might get a snobby all carbon road bike. This fuji will be hopping curbs, going down steps and possibly be taken to the skate park. To me its just another type of urban assault bike. Its probably going to be 2x lbs. Come to my city and see how many daily ridden roadbikes are these old fujis, raleighs, treks, schwinns, giants, diamondbacks. They are just another bike to ride. Youll see more polished turds and all the nee ones in shops for sale or repair. Not trying to come off as mad or anything, i just talk too much trying to prove a point.

Its going to be like my Schwinn probe, another bike to ride. It has a schwinn letour crank, deep ve front wheel from a monoose mtb I had, 7 stem, straight bars, kend kwest front, kenda 838 rear and a seven speed stuffed in it. This fuji is goindg to be a faster veraion of that. A city bike. A run around town, taking pot holes, curbs, dirty alleys point a-b anyway possible bike. All of my bikes are like this. The trike will be as well. After I graft its rear end to my lotus pegasus.