Have acquired an interesting frame of little provenance.
Fork has a Reynolds steerer and Campag ends - Gran Sport ones.
Frame has (had) a Vitus 971 decal and Zeus dropouts - also (their) Gran Sport ones.
It weighs 1890gm so the decal could be true (fork is 705g).
Stays have the fattest wrapover I've eve seen
The frame has likely had additions after - extra eyelets, DT stops for bar-shifters, guides under the BB brazed over the serial number, possibly the bottle bosses and pump peg as well.
Distinctive features are
the wrapover; not only fat, but the stays are half-shot, and they are bent all the way around the seatlog - and not only that, but the joint isn't centred!
chainstay crimps are quite long,
no outer crimp,
bb shell is quite thin-walled (ad. cup and lockring overhang)
I'm of two minds - either it was built from scratch by someone with some skill out of a pile of whatever they had, or it was once a bare frame that lost it's fork and was later played with and married.
Fork has a Reynolds steerer and Campag ends - Gran Sport ones.
Frame has (had) a Vitus 971 decal and Zeus dropouts - also (their) Gran Sport ones.
It weighs 1890gm so the decal could be true (fork is 705g).
Stays have the fattest wrapover I've eve seen
The frame has likely had additions after - extra eyelets, DT stops for bar-shifters, guides under the BB brazed over the serial number, possibly the bottle bosses and pump peg as well.
Distinctive features are
the wrapover; not only fat, but the stays are half-shot, and they are bent all the way around the seatlog - and not only that, but the joint isn't centred!
chainstay crimps are quite long,
no outer crimp,
bb shell is quite thin-walled (ad. cup and lockring overhang)
I'm of two minds - either it was built from scratch by someone with some skill out of a pile of whatever they had, or it was once a bare frame that lost it's fork and was later played with and married.
