Kabuki Bridgestone SYB
03-04-11, 12:46 PM
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Kabuki Bridgestone SYB
Picked this bike up today at our local CO-OP. Don't know much about it yet, but it has some neat features. Will clean up nicley, and will add more of a review next week.
Anyone familiar with this bike, is it a Bridgestone or a Kabuki?
Anyone familiar with this bike, is it a Bridgestone or a Kabuki?
03-04-11, 05:57 PM
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LOVED the headbadges on those. There is a submariner in my neighborhood....
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Bridgestone is the tire company. As I understand it, the head honcho at Bridgestone was a cycling enthusiast, as was the founder of Panasonic (Matsu****a Electric...this name seems to be getting automatically censored after I type it ...you can probably figure out the missing letters). I once had the same bike as the one you have. It is most likely from the late '70s. At that time the top Bridgestone Kabuki bikes were the Diamond Road and the Diamond Touring. I have a Diamond Touring, which I purchased new. The Submariner model, mentioned by Rocket-Sauce above, was an interesting bike that came with unpainted stainless steel main tubes. Some of the Kabuki models came with a seat post that was tightened into place by a bolt that ran through the seat post like the bolt on a handlebar stem, instead of the usual seat binder bolt. If I remember correctly, this was due to the use of cast aluminum lugs on some of the frames (like the Submariner's) that would probably break if a standard seat binder bolt were used. Anyway, your bike probably looked a little like the one below when it first came out of the box when new.
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I am cleaning up a Kabuki but it looks slightly newer than yours and has a more aggressive frame geo. But it shares the same features like cast Aluminum lugs, and a quillstem-type seatpost. Mines had a stuck seatpost and I just hammered the quill in (after I removed bolt and placed it back in) just like hammering a stuck stem.
Yours should clean up well a make a good ride.
Yours should clean up well a make a good ride.
03-05-11, 05:38 AM
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I was wondering if it was worth the trouble of fixing up, or just return it to the CO-OP. We get so many different brand bikes, it's hard to tell the decent ones from the junk.
I went for a short cruise last night, it does seem to be on the small size for me, I might just scrap this project and re-donate it back to the CO-OP. I will ride it again today and see if I really like it and want to put in the effort of fixing it up.
Strange as it might sound, but no ever want's the old ten speed road bikes at the CO-OP, they all want MTB's. Most of our older road bikes get shipping to Pedal for Progress, which they then send overseas to undeveloped countries. At a rough guess we must have over 200-250 road bikes ready to be shipping this spring. I KNOW some of you would scream if you seen the bikes we send to them.
I went for a short cruise last night, it does seem to be on the small size for me, I might just scrap this project and re-donate it back to the CO-OP. I will ride it again today and see if I really like it and want to put in the effort of fixing it up.
Strange as it might sound, but no ever want's the old ten speed road bikes at the CO-OP, they all want MTB's. Most of our older road bikes get shipping to Pedal for Progress, which they then send overseas to undeveloped countries. At a rough guess we must have over 200-250 road bikes ready to be shipping this spring. I KNOW some of you would scream if you seen the bikes we send to them.
03-05-11, 10:25 AM
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very sexxy bike
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