cudak888 

I'll have your disrespectful little self know that I was involved in facilitating a very special Fuji for Nick Ozerov, the man who owns and supplied a good number of the bicycles that Scott photographed in this book.

The man whom you've indirectly insulted through his preference in bicycles.

You seem to forget there are human beings behind all of this. Your hateful, vile, repetitive trash is searing itself over the memories I had of every mile I drove and every piece of foam I carefully put over that frame to make sure it'd ship and be received in absolutely pristine condition.

I'm sick of listening to you spew your garbage here. Your incessant attack has been heard once already. Everything afterwards has been a personal slight to get a reaction out of us. Troll somewhere else.

EDIT for everyone (except Robr) reading: I thought I was in the Japanese Steel thread when I wrote this, so these comments are referring to the wrong thread. If anything, these comments are a lot lighter had I realized we were in a thread celebrating - and hopefully respecting - the late Bill Reavis' love for Fuji bicycles.

-Kurt

P.S.: Mongoose Supergooses stink.

cb400bill

Robr, please leave this thread and do not post in it again.

zammykoo

I’ve never owned a vintage Fuji but have referred to that site time after time. Given the circumstances, this may be a good opportunity to recover as much of the site as possible as a mirror. I’ll see what I can do...

zammykoo

Scott, I just realized that you mentioned you have all of the website content backed up. If you need assistance with putting it back up I would be happy to help. I'm a web designer/developer.

cudak888 

Love to see the community coming together on this. Could have used this archive a few times over the last few months (!)

-Kurt

Tulok

I am so grateful to everyone coming together on this!

I noticed it was gone yesterday and I was literally preparing to copy the entire website and re-up the content onto my personal site just in case it was going to be gone forever!

I am really glad that that you are all actively taking care of it. It is sad about Bill.

We should be extra appreciative that he did all of that work and he in a way lives on through the website. I wonder if someone who knew him could sort of help put up a memorial bit about him onto the new site when you folks are able to re ignite it.

Thank you again! I love my Fuji and I loved to look through that website.

ScottRyder 

Thank you sir, we may take you up on that!!

Scott

ScottRyder 

I appreciate everyone's support and excitement about continuing on with Bill's work. He was a member here at one point but I can't remember his forum name. I'm 100% sure we will dedicate the website to him!

Some of you have written with questions regarding Fuji, I hope to get all those answered as soon as possible.

Cheers,

Scott

zammykoo

Certainly! Feel free to PM me with any details.

Unca_Sam

My FIL and my wife are the original owners of two early 80's Fuji's. I overhauled my wife's bike for a bike vacation with the kids, and offered the same for my FIL. The bikes were a joy to work on (well, except my wife's right pedal) and I found the site to be a useful reference. It's not often that I'll have a reason to care about the human behind a website, but I was sad to see that Mr. Reavis passed after finding the vintage Fuji archive site when I saw the domain expiration. Thank you both for your dedication to what I've come to regard as attractive bikes.

ScottRyder 

Thank you! Think Bill would have been humbled by all of these kind words. If there's any help you need please let me know. The Fuji gods are smiling!

Scott

polymorphself 

I see you're new here, and may not get along too well. We like 'em all in this part of the forum, and Fuji's are far from the exception. Be nice.

cletusjones

I've only ridden 1 Fuji and I loved it! I just couldn't afford it!

cb400bill

I stumbled across this website that has many catalogs. Here is a link to their Fuji collection. 1971 to 1991.

https://labibleduvelocataloguesfuji.blogspot.com/

jamesdak 

^awesome!

TriBiker19 

Mine was inherited. I loved that bike for 12 years until the day I moved to the other coast and didn't have room to take it with me.

francophile 

@zammykoo @ScottRyder

If you guys need a place to host the site, I'll extend the same offer I pushed to Velobase and CyclesPeugeot: Ping me, I probably have the long-term resources you need for bandwidth & hosting, and if it's cycling related, I'll make it work pro bono.

Medwards61

I was just on the website “vintagefuji.posthaven.com” and there is a statement from August 2019 that the site owner Bill Reavis suddenly recently passed away. Scott Ryder, photographer of "Japanese Steel: Classic Bicycle Design from Japan" states that he is working on recreating the site. No further word though on that. Hope this helps.

merziac

While we're at it, this is a great read of the namesake.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/trave...pan-180962782/

Fuji's easily hold their own, then, now and always, period.

ScottRyder 

Thank you sir!

Scott

cb400bill

Scott, I received a copy of Japanese Steel: Classic Bicycle Design from Japan for Christmas. Excellent job on the photography!

ScottRyder 

Sorry for the delay in responding! I'm getting some more bike time in the new year and I hope to catch up on all the emails with questions people have sent me.

As of now, there hasn't been any forward movement on the new ClassicFuji website. But that doesn't mean we haven't been having discussions about it. It's on the hotplate! I'm hoping to add more content to my Fuji Posthaven website this month. I'd really love to get some restoration stories and photos from Fuji enthusiasts. What would other people like to see?

Thanks everyone for your patience and continued good words for the Fuji brand!

Scott

ScottRyder 

Thank you, I really appreciate that.

Scott

ScottRyder 

In addition to the link that cb400bill last October, I have begun to post full catalogs on my Fuji blog with it's new name: https://classicfuji.posthaven.com

Let me know how they look. I'll probably do a year a week, maybe more. My goal is to someday combine my Vintage Fuji site, the Fujita saddle blog (fujitasaddleyfc.posthaven.com) and all the catalogs.

Cheers,

Scott

merziac

and ScottRyder

Me too, asked for it and got it, fantastic work, well done, Thank You!

Another aside that bears noting and repeating.

Fuji is arguably one of the oldest bicycle brands still being used, having been around for over 100 years.