Anonymous steel frameset

[Rhythm Thief]

Another Enviroability donation. It came in as a complete bike (with horrible steel rims on Campagnolo hubs). I've stripped it and found some pretty nice parts on it, including a Super Record rear derailleur and a complete set of Mafac cantis with Modolo levers. I have no idea what make the frame is - the only decal on it says it's been resprayed - but there are some cool design features like the skinny rear brake bridge and the way the seatstays meet the seat tube. I don't think it's 531 as the seatpost is 26.4mm, but it could be plain gauge tubing. The dropouts are Zeus and there's a serial number on the non drive side rear dropout, but no other identifiers. I might rescue this one. Any ideas what it might be?

 

[rogerzilla]

With a long frame number like that, it'll be identifiable somehow - and touring frames were always niche, so not too many builders to reasearch. 26.8 is a plain gauge 531 seat tube but sometimes the rest of the frame was 531ST.

There's no hanger for cantis on that brake bridge, which is strange.

Is all the threading ISO?

 

[Rhythm Thief]

There was a bit of a hanger left on the cable before I strolled it, but the way the cable is routed means a hanger is not actually necessary. I think the threads are ISO. I still don't know whether to take it home with me: I really don't need it but I can't see it selling at Enviroability and I can't scrap it!

 

[rogerzilla]

Oh, that cable tunnel is unusual. Don't scrap it!

 

[Punkawallah]

I’d clean it up, put it back on the road, and sell it for £50 as a ‘work bike’. ‘Ride it to work for two weeks and make your money back in bus fares’.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I’d clean it up, put it back on the road, and sell it for £50 as a ‘work bike’. ‘Ride it to work for two weeks and make your money back in bus fares’.

I think I'm going to build it as a pub bike which will do occasional "proper" rides.

 

[midlife]

Not sure why but it looks French, some of their frames had a few oddities. …

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Not sure why but it looks French, some of their frames had a few oddities. …

I wondered about that. The rear drive side dropout is similar to French frames I've owned in the past. Also, the hubs are Maillard and the stem is Mavic.