Current Projects chat and miscellany

Air tubing and those pencil seat stays make for a whippy rear end, inefficient power transfer for track sprints, yet it has track ends that look OEM. Time trial use, early aero bars?

What year is it? Possibly a pursuit bike from the days before lo-pro became ubiquitous, or maybe people just accepted much less stiffness in the olden days. A Look 496 is probably 5 times stiffer than the old 531 Track tubeset, but people didn't used to wobble round the corners even so.