Sparton track frames

There's also talk about the finishing on them being a touch shoddy (seat posts and bottom bracket shells needing framing, issues with getting headsets on).

But they certainly are cheap as chips. Certainly beater material(?)

I'm pretty sure whoever faced the head tube/bb shell on my sparton had been smoking his chilean crack pipe all day. And while my seat tube shows signs of being reamed, it sure aint round (and if youre going to ream a seat tube, next time can you use a more common size than 26.0mm?) And then theres the brazing, which is at best sloppy. There are a couple of gaps where the filler hasnt come through properly, not big enough to be dangerous, but just untidy. A bit of filing wouldnt go amiss either.

Factor in the ugliest fork in the world (I swapped it straight off for an old 531 road fork), lugs fatter than the nastiest bbw porn youve ever seen, and the ridiculously long chainstays that make tight clearances just about impossible, and yeah, its definitely a beater. Ride it, knowing that when it dies youve got an excuse to buy something good.