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Old 03-14-08 | 09:15 AM
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From: Santa Barbara

Bikes: SE Quadrangle, '82 Venus NJS, '03 Bianchi Pista, '86 P'sonic Mt Cat, Fat City Yo Eddy '91 + '93, B'cuda A2E, '86 Trek Elance 400, '88 Centurion D.Scott Expert, '88 Fisher Mt Tam (and no longer with me: SE OM Flyer, Umezawa/B-stone/Samson NJS)

There are plenty of Japanese-made bikes still in production. All the keirin workshops, and a few touring/randonneur-specific shops (Zephyr, Pegasus), and others that are not NJS/keirin but still make all sorts of great bikes (Zunow, etc).

The major ones are Panasonic and Bridgestone/Anchor. Lots of models, lots of materials, relatively cheap pricing, tons of custom paint options (glow in the dark B-stones!)......and not for sale in the US!

Good excuse for a trip to Japan!

Panasonic: http://www.panabyc.co.jp/products/sports/index.html
the Panasonic Order System bikes are custom order, but the 2008 model year site isn't up yet: http://www.panabyc.co.jp/products/pos/index.html

Bridgestone's high end models go by the Anchor brand-name:
http://www.anchor-bikes.com/bikes/bike.html
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