Originally Posted by cb400bill

...and sold new in the late 70's and early 80's for upwards of $700. Suteki is a company that got its start at a bad time, although they were very high end bikes back then, not enough people were buying bicycles for them to stay in business.

Much of this is pure CL BS. They sold for around $300 ea and were made by Panasonic for Sears. Nobody went to Sears to buy a $300 bike in the early 80's so Sears eventually blew most of them out for $199. They are a nice bike, but were not a high end frame. Thanks for including the vintage ad, pretty cool.