View Single Post
Old 05-08-07, 07:17 PM
  #5  
John E
feros ferio
 
John E's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: www.ci.encinitas.ca.us
Posts: 21,796

Bikes: 1959 Capo Modell Campagnolo; 1960 Capo Sieger (2); 1962 Carlton Franco Suisse; 1970 Peugeot UO-8; 1982 Bianchi Campione d'Italia; 1988 Schwinn Project KOM-10;

Mentioned: 44 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1392 Post(s)
Liked 1,324 Times in 836 Posts
Nishiki introduced the mid-level Semi-Pro under the American Eagle marque in the late 1960s, quickly supplementing it with the low-end Custom Sport, which competed directly with the Varsity. By 1972 they had five models: Custom Sport; Olympic (adds QR); Kokusai (adds aluminum rims and cranks and straight-gauge CrMo main triangle); Semi-Pro/Competition (adds double-butted main triangle, Mighty Compe cranks); and Road Compe (tubulars, full CrMo frameset). Yours looks like something from the late 1970s.
__________________
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt
Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
John E is offline