My friend Nick recently bought an older track bike in Berkeley, CA with an unknown provenance. The seller said it was built in Northern California, but can't remember who built it. It has Fiamme red-label rims, old Clements and my gut feeling is it's from the '70s. The lugs are long and tapered and thin out nicely at the tips, and they definitely show "the hand of the artist". (file marks, some jaggedness)
The top of the bottom bracket shell has a marking that is a horizontal oval containing the letters "RGF". Is that a marking of the maker of the lug, or the builder? Do you know anything about it?
The odd thing about the bike is that it appears to have been built as a track bike for the road. No toe-clip overlap, generous fork rake, low (for a track bike) bottom bracket and a relatively long top tube. It's got campy track dropouts in the rear, campy drop-outs up front and very little room for more than a 20c tire at the fork crown.
The components are a mish-mash of various brands / eras.
He's going to build up some basic around-town flip-flop wheels for it. He won't use the the wheels that are on it, which appear pretty to be perhaps of the same era as the frame. I'll get specifics for them and post them to this list as a "FS" item.
Morgan