Originally Posted by
Miyatalove
The 210, 610, and 1000 were the Miyata touring series.
In the early 80's the 210's were sport bikes, all Miyata did was in the mid 80's is called them touring bikes, but if you look at the geometry of the bike it was still a sport bike and not a touring bike. You can put stripes on a lion and call him a zebra all day but it's still a lion. Miyata reclassified the bike after problems with all manufactures selling sport bikes because they fell in classification crack in the floor that people couldn't understand the purpose of.
Go here and scan the catalogues every year for 210 starting in 1982 by putting the year into the search box to get the particular year of bikes.
http://www.miyatacatalogs.com/2007/1...alog-1981.html The 210 was basically the equivelant of a Schwinn Traveler which was sport frame as well that they called a touring bike even though it had nothing in common in geometry with their real touring bikes the Voyager, and since Miyata did not make a touring bike in their regular line (Koga Miyata did) they simply reclassified an old bike model that started life as a sport.
I don't want to argue over semantics, the real point is it was a fairly low end bike on par with a Schwinn Traveler and not any where near worth $300 even if you want to label it a touring bike.