Thanks for the details. You are correct sirs. One more brief note about the bike...I took it for a ride at lunch...it's most redeeming quality is the geometry.It could make a decent fixed gear beater. Fairly tight without that huge fork rake seen on the Peugeots of the period.
Not that there is anything wrong with that...
Warren Young
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Russ wrote...
Ah, the bicycle-military-firearms-industrial complex rears its head again!
The Browning Arms Company imported bikes during the 1970s. My recollection is that they listed models as Grade I, Grade II and Grade III, in the same fashion that one could purchase, say, their .22 T-bolt rifle in those grades. Grade I was fairly basic, etc. I also seem to recall that while Browning firearms are usually very good quality, the bikes were not so far from generic bike boom stuff. Correct me if I'm wrong.