Sometimes you don't know what you have 'til it's gone.....
04-01-18 | 01:29 PM
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Sometimes you don't know what you have 'til it's gone.....
A few years ago I picked this up off Ebay to build a beater bike, it was a little small but it was cheap and had the braze-ons I wanted. When it came I was pretty sure it wasn't a box store bike but I was never able to figure out what it was until just recently.
It served as my 1st Winter bike quite admirably, in fact nothing since ever handled as well in the snow. It then went through a few other iterations, this being the last. I sold it on CL and got a real decent Team FUJI in my size and some cash in trade.
The FUJI:
I thought I had done pretty well on the trade until a few weeks ago. Turns out it was a European market Panasonic Mountain Cat 7500, had Tange Prestige tubing and full Deore XT group when new. For what I had in the frameset I still did quite well but if I had only known what it was......... The one pictured has a U-brake under the chain stays so it's probably a year or so older.
Guess that explains why it rode so well.
It served as my 1st Winter bike quite admirably, in fact nothing since ever handled as well in the snow. It then went through a few other iterations, this being the last. I sold it on CL and got a real decent Team FUJI in my size and some cash in trade.
The FUJI:
I thought I had done pretty well on the trade until a few weeks ago. Turns out it was a European market Panasonic Mountain Cat 7500, had Tange Prestige tubing and full Deore XT group when new. For what I had in the frameset I still did quite well but if I had only known what it was......... The one pictured has a U-brake under the chain stays so it's probably a year or so older.
Guess that explains why it rode so well.
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04-01-18 | 10:32 PM
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04-02-18 | 06:32 PM
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Wish I had a better picture of the dropouts, in the picture I know it's hard to tell but it definitely had forged dropouts. They were my first indication that it might have been something decent when I first pulled it out of the box. They weren't the embossed stamped dropouts like lower end Fujis either. In fact the guy that bought it was a wrench at a LBS and he commented on them when he was looking it over.
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04-02-18 | 06:34 PM
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