What's a Mizutani?
03-07-09 | 01:57 PM
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What's a Mizutani?
The bike coop I volunteer at just got an unusual Japanese bike and I can't find much information in Search about it.
It appears to be from the 70s, has some nice light steel and is set up for touring.
I'd love to own this bike, but it's not my size.
Does anyone have an idea?
It appears to be from the 70s, has some nice light steel and is set up for touring.
I'd love to own this bike, but it's not my size.
Does anyone have an idea?
03-07-09 | 02:02 PM
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I remember hearing about them in my LBS days, there was a model called Seraph and/or Super Seraph, something like that. I don't think they were terribly common and don't recall which shop sold them.
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1971 Paramount P-13 Chrome
1973 Paramount P-15 Opaque Blue
1974 Raleigh Professional Blue Mink
1991 Waterford Paramount
Holland Titanium Dura Ace Group
Holland Titanium Ultegra Triple Group
03-07-09 | 03:55 PM
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Bikes: 1959 Capo Modell Campagnolo; 1960 Capo Sieger (2); 1962 Carlton Franco Suisse; 1970 Peugeot UO-8; 1982 Bianchi Campione d'Italia; 1988 Schwinn Project KOM-10;
We sold a few at Bikecology in 1973, when our usual Nishikis were in short supply. The basic all-steel Peugeot UO-8 equivalent was the Seraph Spree -- the Seraph had aluminum components and a CrMo frame and looked about equivalent to the Nishiki Competition. They were just good basic Japanese bikes.
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Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt
Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
03-07-09 | 10:22 PM
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Nice bike. I added this Seraph headbadge to the Velobase database a while back.
(Jon, if you see this I tried to edit the listing of this badge over at Velobase changing the brand to Mizutani and messed it up.)
(Jon, if you see this I tried to edit the listing of this badge over at Velobase changing the brand to Mizutani and messed it up.)
03-08-09 | 04:16 AM
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From: Örebro, Sweden
Bikes: Monark sportser 1970, Monark sportser 1970ish, Monark folder, Mustand 1985, Monark Tempo 1999, Monark 318 1975, Crescent 319 1979, Crescent 325 c:a 1965, Crescent Starren 2002 (hybrid/sport), Nordstjernan 1960`s cruiser.
The Mizutani sprung out from the Tsunoda co. I believe they were called Lotus in the US? The bikes differ in names, and as stated above they were also called Seraph. They came to Sweden under the name Seraph. Mizutani also named their bikes in line with the bikes gruppo, therefor there are bikes called 600EX and 600AX. The pic shows a Tsunoda frame. The bike is called Lancer and I´m currently bidding on it.
