Anyone heard of this frame?
 

I picked up a weird frame in trade yesterday. It's a large steel frame, looks to be either road or cyclocross, and has some very small cantilever brake braze-ons (though without studs). It came completely stripped- no bearings, BB, cups, fork, or even the studs for the canti brakes, and has been painted poorly a couple of times (possibly why it was so stripped).

The only clue is its intact headbadge, which says "Space Pac", one word above the other. Anyone have any information on this bike? A Google search doesn't give much, one person asked on BF a few years ago and didn't really get an answer. It weighs around 7lbs and has very nice lugs, so it's not a department-store bike, but there doesn't seem to be any way to identify it.

no pictures? pics would help...

Sorry about that, damn camera's batteries were dead. The pictures aren't that great but it gives a general idea. The "space pac" badge has a four-star logo above it, and the frame looked to have been green originally, than painted yellow then gray.

What does it say under "Space Pac"? I can make out letters but can't read them. It looks pretty rough, I hope you didn't trade too much for it. But judging by the canti studs and lugged frame it was probably a good bike at one time. I'd say it was a touring bike, but I don't know how long cyclocross specific bikes have existed.

There seems to be a bit of story to them, still doing some research. But it seems to be tied in with Billy "Spaceman" Bleichner, and here's a set of photos on Flickr what the bike looks like; http://www.flickr.com/photos/koshi/s...th/2646652510/

Hopefully this helps a bit some.

i was looking at it but it doesnt seem to be tied to the guy other than he owns one. i found another one of these frames but this one was chopped and he took crappy photos....

http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2006/feb/AlexApking.htm

Didn't trade that much for it; just a couple of mountain bike tubes (used). Anyway, I'll have to check tommorow what's written on the badge; it is too small for me to make out in the original photo either. Surprisingly, there's no rust. Seems to have quite a tall headtube though, wondering where to get a fork for it if I do try to restore it.

The brake studs on that Flickr set are not standard canti/V-brake studs, they are more like the old U-brake studs that are placed above the rim.

The bike in the flicker set looks to be a nice mid level bike from the days when everything was lugged. Can't tell much of anything from your pics other than it looks like your bike is set up for regular canti instead of centerpull brakes. If your frame weighs 7 pounds, then it is an entry level model.
It's worth noting that there were a lot of variances in brake specs in the 70's and early 80's. So just because it has canti studs doesn't mean a modern canti brake will work, plus there's the whole 27" wheel thing....