Joined: Jul 2007
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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)
hmm, I say keirin bike (or 競輪の自転車、sometimes 競技用の自転車、競輪車 etc) to refer to NJS-approved bikes. makes more sense in Japanese to call them a keirin bike, I think you'd get a confused glance if you said 'NJS bike' and though keirin is a specific event around the world, in Japan it is popular shorthand for velodrome bike racing w/betting (as you know).
I can see it being weird to refer to a KitoTT as a 'keirin' bike, but as an =NJS statement I think it's fine.
actually, come to think of it I say "keirin frame" more often than "keirin bike"....