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I picked this up yesterday at a garage sale. (I really like those garage sale finds.) This is certainly an entry level bike, probably the lowest in the Fuji line-up, maybe one from the bottom. However, it has an interesting shifter set. It's a Suntour Accushift (index), 6 speed, stem set-up. It works great. The frame is chro-moly, NOT butted. It's not very lively, actually a sort of dead frame. I was somewhat excited with this find because it's a Fuji, the frame size is close to ideal for me and it has index shifting. But after riding it and weighing it (about 26lbs), I think I'm going to remove the shifters and rear dr, then flip it as a friction shifting bike.
Now for the numbers. Bad news, I could not find a date code on the front DR. It says Suntour and that's all.
The rear DR is code DG, or July 1987.
The frame code is F7097750. I know, that does not line up with the other 1987 frame code numbers.
Based on the rear DR code, I'm guessing this bike was an early 1988 model. There was a second code number, 0C 054. I have no idea what that code means. Although the frame code numbers do not line up with other 1987 frames, it does line up with my previous post for a 1993 Fuji Club with the first number being the year of manufacture. Perhaps Fuji used different code numbers for different levels of bikes? I'll leave further analysis to T-Mar.
PS, I used chalk to highlight the frame numbers.
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