While it may not be an example of great workmanship, the bike is a bit too far from being junk to throw away. It's at least got cast or forged rear dropouts, and the dura ace parts are nice.
I'd put on a replacement fork and give the rest a good cleaning. Ride it a couple times, and decide if it was something I wanted to keep. I'd also keep the original fork. And if anyone wants a real challenge just try to do an actually correct restoration on something lower mid range like this. Parts can be pretty inexpensive, but very hard to find.
At the worst it will then be safe to ride and probably a decent starter or commuter bike for someone.
And if you find any of that awful dura -Ace stuff just send it my way. I'll pick up the shipping.:)
Steve Birmingham Lowell, Massachusetts USA
Message: 2 Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 20:40:04 -0400 From: Louis Schulman <louiss@gate.net> Subject: Re: [CR] was AMF now bulged steerer tube and deep thread safety? To: Ken Willow <kwillow@core3creative.com> Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Message-ID: <4A2C5DE4.4040306@gate.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed
Please just throw this bicycle out. Some things are junk, were junk and always will be junk.
Louis Schulman Tampa, Florida USA
Ken Willow wrote:
> Thanks to all who replied; I'm now confident Asia is the winner. I had
> intended on passing the frame along to a new owner but I've hit
> another snag. Upon removal of the fork I noticed that the steerer tube
> has a bulge and that the threads are cut so deep that they are visible
> on the inside of the tube is this safe? Maybe I should consult the
> frame builders list?thanks again (especially to the Chicago crew that made
up half of my replies).
> Ken Willow
> Chicago Illinois
> USA