Bike Forums - View Single Post - The "Show off your Japanese bike." thread

08-03-15, 06:11 AM

#731

KonAaron Snake

Fat Guy on a Little Bike

Join Date: Jun 2008

Location: Philadelphia, PA

Posts: 15,944

Bikes: Two wheeled ones

Mentioned: 42 Post(s)

Tagged: 0 Thread(s)

Quoted: 1254 Post(s)

Likes: 514

Liked 345 Times in 174 Posts

Quote:

Originally Posted by alrsv1

Technically this isn't mine any more, it was sold to a customer. But I did the restoration on it.

It had no decals and couldn't be positively identified. It's Tange Aero. I suspect whoever did make these frames sold them to a few different outlets and they got labeled appropriately. There was one here in Australia called Standish, so it could have been that.

Anyway, it was more about the group set, right?

Eyelets?!?! WEIRD.

The Lotus is the only one I've seen with the funky headtube...I wonder if that was a customization or an option. I can't tell from the photo - did this use the triangular aero seattube?

__________________
Aaron

http://s936.photobucket.com/user/aolk67/library/gallery

Reply