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That DB is looking nice, has it 500 stamped on the rear drop out if not post the serial no.

Nice that

It could originally have been a 2nd gen Silver Streak which was released towards the back end of 1983.

They were first stamped CRMO, then dropped and the same frame stamped 500 (pacer 500) and both frames used for later models

You can read more about it here http://www.os-db.net/silver%20streak%20-%201983.html

The decals are not right for that type frameset, what you have on it is a mixture of Viper/Silver Streak (some of us know who were selling them on ebay). That frame was difficult because of later models that turned up using the same set. DB simply used old stock up.

Late 1983 - CRMO stamped frameset = 2nd Gen Silver Streak which was later replaced by the Pacer 500 (used same frameset stamped 500 or CRMO), this same frameset was also used for the Super Viper and later Viper.

So basically you have four model that used thr same frameset, but the F3 CRMO started out as the 2nd Gen Silver Streak

Confusing is only half the story.

Yours is the first style from 1984, and follows the format of the other bikes for that era using that type decal, though you have to remember that the frame dates are manufacturing dates of the frame. The Super Streak was not in the original 1984 brochure and for 1985 suggested the newer type decal.

Also that frame was not used for any other model, though it could have been later on but it's definately not a Viper, they had chainguard tabs and weren't full Chromoly.