Picked up a nice 1975 Fuj America today, thought I could post some pics
12-21-14, 12:54 PM
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Ebay one night this past weekend, when I should have been sleeping had a 7400 SL complete from 1984, minus wheels, cables, chain, the rest was all original Campy. I couldn't control my pointy finger and clicked $404 for it with shipping. Unfortunately for me it was an odd hour, and I won the auction. Now have to figure out how to hide it, when it comes. I have numerous parts to complete it so I figured a Columbus SL Guerciotti would be worth $400 I have into it. How much is a divorce these days???
Beautiful bikes, by the way. Especially the Guerciotti.
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12-27-14, 04:35 AM
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From atleast the mid 70s until 1992 Fuji almost exclusively used Ishiwata tubing. Technically, Fuji tubesets (like VaLite) were claimed to be proprietary spec, but in actuality it was all manufactured by Ishiwata.
Its been verified in other threads here that tubesets like the VaLite 1769 (used on most Fuji mid tier bikes in the mid-late 80s) was just rebranded Ishiwata Mangy X. I also have strong suspicion that the higher tier FUJI 331 is just Ishiwata 022 with a thicker downtube (similar to the way many framebuilders would throw in a SP downtube with an SL main triangle).
12-27-14, 04:56 AM
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According to the Fuji rep at the time, Fuji used Ishiwata tubing drawn to their specs on the best frames and stock tubing on the others.
12-27-14, 08:13 AM
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Cool. Good to know.
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Guerciotti turned out nice, already sold the original brakes and recouped half the price of the entire bike. Just a quick pic, had these nice Gran Compe lying around and threw them on
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