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Old 10-13-09, 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by metalchef87
T-Mar,

I mentioned earlier that I had gotten a Nishiki Custom Sport and gave the serial number, but I gave you the wrong letter to indicate the year. On a third or fourth look I noticed that the sequence went "K...I..." not "T". So this means it is an 89 correct? Could you tell me a little more about it...like entry or upper level, etc.? That would be great.
The Custom Sport was typically postioned as Nishiki's upper, entry level bike. I'm not aware that Nishiki made a Custom Sport in 1989. I thought the last year for the Custom Sport was 1987. In that year, it had a double butted, chromoly frame, downtube-index shifters, and a very nice Araya 27" wheel set with rims as narrow as those found on 700C Nishikis of the same vintage.
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