I suspected the chrome frame I picked from the dump last month was never sold and I got confirmation today. As I picked up my wheel from the bike shop, I told them I finally found a big frame, and it was at the dump but never used. The shop owner said it must have been from his brother in law's shop that went out of business a few years ago. That's exactly what I thought from the masking tape stock number. He went on to say he threw out a whole bunch of new unsold frames and stuff. So I went back to the dump and looked for more. I saw a couple other frames before but they didn't interest me much. There were more workers there this time and one said there were frames upstairs. I reluctantly went up some rickety ladders up through piles of junk. On the third layer of stuff he started pulling out frame after frame. They had the same labels on them so I knew this must be where they all wound up. I put two aside and was ready to head out when he yanked out a big cruiser frame. This is a 20" frame and is huge. It went in the pile to take home.
This would have qualified as my build off bike and will be 4-4-2. I'll take everything off the chrome frame and make the cantilever frame the biggest bike in town.
Then a big mixte and a 24" ten speed frame, along with a 20" BMX and 20" cruiser frame still wrapped in the plastic. I remember seeing those hanging up for sale back in 2010.
So I had five frames selected, a trunk load, as much as we could carry. They have the same dropouts and lugs so they must be from the same supplier, maybe knockoffs. They are chrome or painted except for the big cantilever frame. It's bare metal. Luckily it has the same dropouts as the big chrome frame, my extensions were made up to bolt to that style dropout. Maybe they are all 1987, 2 of the serials I checked are 87.
Then the guy pulled out a stretch frame about seven feet long. It wasn't home made, looks like one from the old shop also. I told him I'll be back to get that one along with 2 or 3 other frames that looked good. Most look like road bike frames. So, my bike carrier is now ready to haul more NOS frames out of the junkpile soon I hope.
This would have qualified as my build off bike and will be 4-4-2. I'll take everything off the chrome frame and make the cantilever frame the biggest bike in town.
Then a big mixte and a 24" ten speed frame, along with a 20" BMX and 20" cruiser frame still wrapped in the plastic. I remember seeing those hanging up for sale back in 2010.
So I had five frames selected, a trunk load, as much as we could carry. They have the same dropouts and lugs so they must be from the same supplier, maybe knockoffs. They are chrome or painted except for the big cantilever frame. It's bare metal. Luckily it has the same dropouts as the big chrome frame, my extensions were made up to bolt to that style dropout. Maybe they are all 1987, 2 of the serials I checked are 87.
Then the guy pulled out a stretch frame about seven feet long. It wasn't home made, looks like one from the old shop also. I told him I'll be back to get that one along with 2 or 3 other frames that looked good. Most look like road bike frames. So, my bike carrier is now ready to haul more NOS frames out of the junkpile soon I hope.
