fiveSixteenths
Senior Retro Guru
When you say ‘they’ (didn’t manufacture with internal routing) do you mean the brand you think this was made for?
Top tube routing was a thing as far back as the 1950’s
Help identifying vintage steel frame — maybe Batavus, Peugeot or something else?
- Thread starter molokee
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Top tube routing was a thing as far back as the 1950’s
molokee
Retro Newbie
I want to find at least one frame with internal wiring like mine.When you say ‘they’ (didn’t manufacture with internal routing) do you mean the brand you think this was made for?
Top tube routing was a thing as far back as the 1950’s
Sorry for the background
molokee
Retro Newbie
It might just be the bottom bracket shell in the Bridgestone, but everything else..
juvela
Old School Hero
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have seen a Bridgestone logo on other frame bits in the past
it has made me wonder if the firm a supplier of frame bits as well as cycles
perchance one of our framebuilder members will know...
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non-fixie
Senior Retro Guru
It seems that Bridgestone built also frames for quite a few other brands than their own, and their specifications may well have differed, including the use of internal cable routing.
Brands that are suggested by T-Mar's Asian Serial Number Guide are:
- C. Itoh (Japan)
- International (the Canadian brand, not the Japanese one)
- Itoh (USA)
- Jet
- Kabuki (Japan, USA)
- Kobe (USA)
- Schwinn (USA)
- Skyway (Japan)
- Supercycle (Canada)
Perhaps @dihummer has some additional insights?
Brands that are suggested by T-Mar's Asian Serial Number Guide are:
- C. Itoh (Japan)
- International (the Canadian brand, not the Japanese one)
- Itoh (USA)
- Jet
- Kabuki (Japan, USA)
- Kobe (USA)
- Schwinn (USA)
- Skyway (Japan)
- Supercycle (Canada)
Perhaps @dihummer has some additional insights?
juvela
Old School Hero
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in about '83-'84 saw in person a NOS made in Japan Bianchi fork whose steerer carried a Bridgestone symbol
recall wondering at the time if it was Bridgestone manufactured or if it may have been a steerer contracted for by Bridgestone which ended up with another maker...
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in about '83-'84 saw in person a NOS made in Japan Bianchi fork whose steerer carried a Bridgestone symbol
recall wondering at the time if it was Bridgestone manufactured or if it may have been a steerer contracted for by Bridgestone which ended up with another maker...
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