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Bikes: '84 Miyata 610 ‘91 Cannondale ST600,'83 Trek 720 ‘84 Trek 520, 620, ‘91 Miyata 1000LT, '79 Trek 514, '78 Trek 706, '73 Raleigh Int. frame.
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In my parts bin I have a red TX700 frame from 1978 that had had a factory replacement fork and factory repaint from about 1983.
I wonder if your TX500 has a similar history, but perhaps they sprayed the fork to match the frame instead of a full repaint.
Does the fork’s steerer tube have the frame serial number hand etched into it?