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oldschoolace:
The 80's toy thread got me thinking about what make the bike would be in the paperboy arcade artwork. Obviously its an artists impression but i found this ad for Atari's promotion of the game. would make a cool little replica project i recon, especially if you could source an actual machine.

The big question is, what make is the bike? the closest i can get is a schwinn mag scrambler but the ad bike looks like it may have a lugged bb to downtube joint?  :-\

What do you recon guys?

Redline:
....looks like a Scorpion frame with Tange TX1200 forks to me. Givaways are the rear dropouts with skinny tubes going to them, the head tube looks like Scorpion to me with the indentation and the gusset looks the same too.  :daumenhoch:

oldschoolace:
I did think of scorpion but not convinced the rear drops are right or the headtube is lugged :-\

stidds:
I would say the Schwinn route is right, the bars are (or look like) Schwinn Sting bars.

As you say it isn't lugged so not a Scorpion.

oldschoolace:
Did Schwinn do a bb lugged frame does anyone know? It stands to reason the ad men would have used something fairly common/ chainstore bought

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