Really old Bridgestone
04-08-07 | 10:13 PM
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K2ProFlex baby!
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From: My response would have been something along the lines of: "Does your bike have computer controlled suspension? Then shut your piehole, this baby is from the future!"
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Originally Posted by braingel
Yup...some of the decals are even written in Japanese. Headbadge says Tokyo.
Garsh your kinda funny! yuk yuk yuk!
04-09-07 | 12:20 AM
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My guess is that during the US occupation of Japan, there was a huge demand for bicycles. Becuase all the Japanese bicycle factories had been previously bombed and yet to be rebuilt, and gas was still being rationed. So Bridgestone made bikes specifically for the Japanese market. Yep, that's the story you can tell. I'd believe it.
04-09-07 | 12:42 AM
#29
Good guess; that's pretty much what happened. You had 150,000,000 people with no way to get from one place to another, so anybody with any manufacturing capacity at all was building bikes. That's how Soichiro Honda started. Suzuki and Yamaha were mainly makers of musical instruments prior to the war, and they built bikes too.
04-09-07 | 07:08 AM
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From: My response would have been something along the lines of: "Does your bike have computer controlled suspension? Then shut your piehole, this baby is from the future!"
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Originally Posted by braingel
Huh? I don't get it
dont mind it, to hard to explain 
