It's a 700c lugged hybrid or touring frame with a unicrown fork, cantilever studs, semi-horizontal dropouts and an early Shimano LX silver drivetrain. That dark blue band on the top tube is its original medium blue.
Any idea who made it? Where it came from? Chimayo Backroads or Backroads Chimayo? I asked the Google and came up dry. More pics to come...
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Backroads is a venerable supported-touring company. It might be a private-label kinda thing.
I was sort of thinking along the same lines. The faded paint suggests that it may have spent a lot of time outside someplace sunny...like New Mexico.
Still sort of wonder who the manufacturer may have been...
Yeah, Chimayo, that is here. In NM. Woooooo! Check it. This is chimayo, sort of:
http://tsaleh.blogspot.com/2005/10/comma-kai-yai-yikki-yikki-yay-sorry.html
See the left of the weird stone tower? That is chimayo. I am pretty sure you can not score a bike in chimayo, but you can score red chili and heroin.
Red chili and heroin as one dish, or would that be two separate transactions?
I have one too! From what I've been able to tell, they are older bikes that Backroads touring company used for their tours and then sold off. It's been hard to tell who made the frame, but the best guess is that's it's Japanese, and likely makers are Centurion/Diamondback or Miyata. It's a decent to nice touring frame with good geometry. The components on my bike were all a matched Shimano LX groupo which dated to 1991, so I peg the bike at early 1990s. It was probably build toward the end of the lugged frame era and is Tange 2 tubing. Great bike! Feel free to email me with questions.
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