>>1880662I don't think you should regret it either, it is cool, much cooler than a cheap prebuilt, and if it rides well it rides well, lots of low end old frames and bikes ride well.
>nobody bought road bikes in Portugal in the 80s/90sI just find that hard to believe. Was your economy really so far in the shit then? Why aren't there road bikes from that era around?
It's also not a dichotomy between exotic italian frames, with columbus SL tubing, etc, things that sometimes command ebay retard prices, and gaspipe shitters, there's a scale of old cromo bikes, from basic plain gauge tange 5, reynolds 501, columbus aelle and tretubi ('3 tubes' meaning the stays are not cromo), decent sport and club level old road bikes that were specced with exage, or low end suntour, etc, cheap components, like claris and sora of today, or maybe 105, these bikes/frames now are not particularly desirable but nor are they necessarily much worse than exotic high end race frames. That's the scale of things I would recommend for projects, the same scale exists for classic mtb. A cromo hardrock is still on the scale with a stumpjumper, it's still a 'nice' frame, just entry level.
Then you also have unequivocally cheap beaters from new that were never intended as sporting bikes, with gaspipe/hiten tubing, stamped steel dropouts, etc, like in your pic, that either roll, to any standard, and therefor have use, or are junk, with zero value to the parts, or are a trap for people who should have looked slightly higher for a project.
And yours is like 4 sizes too small.
