Dave Muggleston
Feb 3 2007, 09:41 PM
This frame is really solid, and it has so much character that I couldn't wait to do a survivor build around it. Then I saw the right dropout. Bummer. Serial number is 84087350; is this an '84 Sport? I'll never have it repaired (not really my "thing") so it will hit eBay eventually.
Spicoli
Feb 3 2007, 09:50 PM
sure looks like one to me, but I aint exactly an expert on the subject...looks like somone bit of that drop...
if the dropouts are the worst of it, then it may not be to difficult a repair for Rod...
DansHaros
Feb 3 2007, 09:52 PM
Yes, overseas '84 Sport. Find a used FST dropout and have Rod fix it, easy!
8587GN
Feb 3 2007, 11:49 PM
before you ebay it,LMK what you need out of it.I have a guy who has an "awesome set of tv repair tools".I`m looking for a 84 Sport
1niceharo
Feb 4 2007, 08:48 AM
DansHaros
Feb 4 2007, 09:17 AM
The one on ebay Looks like a '86 FST to me.
[ February 04, 2007, 10:19 AM: Message edited by: DansHaros ]
unfitskip
Feb 4 2007, 09:29 AM
how are the 2 different? I'm not seeing it.
DansHaros
Feb 4 2007, 09:34 AM
The Sport is longer, it has a chainstay gusset behind the bottom bracket and the dropouts are a little different. And of course the forks.
Chip
Feb 4 2007, 09:41 AM
I may have a set of dropouts you can use from an FST with a destroyed seat mast. Do you just need the one side?
WVBMXER
Feb 4 2007, 09:57 AM
that sucks, about a month back I got a 86 sport that the bars were completely bent down 90 degrees and one droup out on the fork was completely broken off.
Not Eddie Roman
Feb 4 2007, 11:56 AM
I still regret not buying the NOS '84 Sport (with Dominguez chainstay decals, even) frame that was sitting in a Ronkonkoma bike shop 10 years ago. I did buy the NOS looptail Quad that was available for the same price—$50. Which I then passed on to a friend who used to race an SE.
I guess it's for the best, though—because had I bought the Sport, I would have ridden it into the ground. Like my '85.

(That was how it looked when I had it built last, in September of '01. The frame/fork is currently residing in the rafters at Brooklyn Machine Works.)
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