[Jim Bremner]

Originally Posted by LEAKYSEALS951

Bikes just fall from the sky....
Lookee at what I rode up to the other day sitting in a ditch by the side of the road. After looking around for the corpse of a dead rider, and looking at the dry rotted tires, I came to the conclusion that this bike had been stored 20+ years somewhere inside/barn/etc... put in a truck to be hauled off, and then fell off the back of someone's trailer or something and was left for dead. It has been there for a week or two. It is visible from the road, and no one has claimed it.

It is a Nishiki with sugino parts/mid 1980's, araya rims. It has not been outside for long, as all bearings work and the chain is not totally encrusted.The brake calipers are not rusted, they are a neat anodized shade of copper. The rims spin true. The only downside I see in "adopting" should the owner never claim it, is that the wheels are 27x1 inch, and I do not want to waste $$$ on even a new set of tires for this (all I got are 700c). But a shame to let it rot. Thoughts? What is one to do in such a situation?

It's a 1985 don't swap it to 700c I don't think that the brakes will reach.