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This is a great little thread now guys, thanks for your inputs .
Here's another voice of opinion I grabbed from the Flickr tribute page -
Hi Scooter, nice find. It's difficult to say what the origin of this frame is. There are certain Aende features such as the shot in seat stays and seat lug that look like it could be an Aende, but personally, I've not seen those style of lugs before on an Aende. It could be that the remains of the Aende stickers are just someone stuck them on at some point to jazz it up a bit. Saying that it does look quite a nice frame anyway, so I guess there would be no reason to do such a thing.
As for your other queries, it is really difficult to know what tubing was used. I feel that Pongo had a slight preference for Columbus tubing, certainly he pushed me to choose Columbus SL for my TT frame when I'd originally asked for 531 SL but if a customer particularly wanted Reynolds over Columbus I'm sure he would have been happy to do that for them. Date wise, again, very tricky, but the remains of the Aende stickers look like the earlier type that were used up intil the later 80s. Maybe others on here will have more of an idea?
One thing I do know is that the handlebar setup and seatpost would not be original, the seatpost is a cheap generic type and those type of handlebars were more common on low profile time trial bikes and not usually on upright road or TT frames.
Enjoy your find and keep us posted if you restore it
