Show me your Made in Japan bikes/frames

[Robeven]

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Show you one of my bike, its a Miyata Valley Runner Carbon from 91´. This was a special model only made for the scandinavian market. Its carbon and steel with Shimano Deore Lx components. Very rare bike today.

I have recently changed the tires to Panaracer Smoke Classic and found a NOS Tioga Avenger stem on ebay which is now on since original was black. I have also put on NOS Ritchey Logic brake pads which the owner of my local bicycleshop found in one of the boxes down in the basement... Ritchey WCS foam grips, seatpost changed to aluminium from original black and aluminium Wellgo M-21 pedals. Otherwise bike is original... I am surprised how smooth this bike is, its a large frame 21,5" inch and the crankset is the Biopace which Miyata used before... the oval design but it works good. I also like to have barends on it so I can lay my hands on the barends when I ride... so the Onza barends is good for that

I ride it on my freetime when I need to transport myself to different places....

 

[Elev12k]

The frame is very much like a Koga Miyata TerraRunner Carbolite of the same year.

 

[Robeven]

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Just finished with my latest "whip"... Bought it last week as is.. did some minor restauration on it removing original Ritchey force handlebar and replaced it with a riser handlebar, worn out original grips removed and put new Onza Porcipaws on it, package holder at the back been removed and rewiring the shifting cables. Cleaned the whole bike and some oil on different places... The original saddle was looking like a mess so found a used Bontrager saddle at my local bicycleshop in one of their drawers.... The wheels is not original but Im going to keep them... going to change the current tyres to another ones later on...

Its a Bridgestone MB-4... but Im not sure about the exakt year.... appears to be 1988 or 1989 when searaching info on the Internet. It has the Biopace crank, Mountain LX gears rear and front. Frame is 21 inch.

 

[Bollox64]

My current project, a Japanese built Paramount Team, resprayed and being built up as Tim Gould's 1993 Team Schwinn ride (as that's what they rode)

image by Bollox2u, on Flickr

and as it was when I got my hands on the frame

IMG_4414 by Bollox2u, on Flickr

 

[WimVDD]

Here's my 1991 Panasonic I recently rebuilt. I tried to stay as close to the catalog specifications as possible. When searching the internet for info on it, I found a 1991 pricelist. This bike costed 3000 GBP 28 years ago. :shock:

 

[Graham_hkr]

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Bloody stunning bike that is, good luck with BoTM..

 

[WimVDD]

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Bloody stunning bike that is, good luck with BoTM..

Thanks!

Wim

 

[TSC.]

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1991 Montana Team made by Toyo Japan (or possibly Hodaka Taiwan):

 

[kingoffootball]

Not only do I really like thgat Panasonic, I'd missed this thread in the past, so I just enjoyed looking through all the other nice Japanese-made bikes.

 

[kingoffootball]

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1991 Montana Team made by Toyo Japan (or possibly Hodaka Taiwan):

That's another frame that has some similarities to my unidentified single speed frame. Do you know the seatpost size or the frame number format to help me rule out yet another possible identification? :facepalm: