Hi Billy,
Zeus did make a few frame sets with the Nervex lugs and they came with metal head badges and used the 1960's style decals. From what I can see, the fork looks to be correct; the head tube will have 2 rivet holes where the metal head badge used to be.
If you have a copy of Ron Kitching's hand book circa 1970, it references this frame set on page 190. I can scan and e-mail the pages to you if interested.
Similar Zeus with missing head badge
http://www.cyclofiend.com/
Picture of Zeus head badge (Actually, this is my Zeus Mexico 1968 in Toledo Copper)
http://www.velobase.com/
Regards,
Scott Edrington San Diego CA
-----Original Message----- From: billydavid13@comcast.net [mailto:billydavid13@comcast.net] Sent: Saturday, February 6, 2010 04:00 PM To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: [CR] Zeus w/ Nervex lugs question.
Hi all. There's currently a putative Zeus on ebay. I'm thinking of bidding on it.It has Nervex lugs and the seller believes it's BSC. It has Zeus dropouts. Seller isn't 100% sure it's Zeus. Personally i don't recall ever seeing a Zeus w/ anything other than a fairly pedestrian spearpoint lug and i thought all the frames had French, metric threads. The seatstay caps look very Zeusish, however. Can anyone shed any light on whether this is indeed a Zeus? Also fork is non-sloping crown. Thanks! Billy Ketchum, Chicago. IL; USA _______________________________________________ Classicrendezvous mailing list Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org http://www.bikelist.org/