[CR]Response to Team Fuji question for Jeff

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From: "garth libre" <rabbitman@mindspring.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 18:32:13 -0400
Subject: [CR]Response to Team Fuji question for Jeff

Jeff: My Team Fuji was purchased in San Francisco six months after President Reagan was shot. I believe that this makes the year 1981 ( almost sure it wasn't 1980). The Team sold for 450.00 at a shop that rarely discounted anything. The seat tube was laid back and I believe 72.5 degrees. The tubing was Fuji's own db chrome moly and it said so on the downtube, but I can not recall the number. In that year the bike came only in one color: light chocolate brown with a brown seat, brown tape, and anodized old gold colored rims. The parts were all Suntour with two Arx deraileurs. The brakes were the same. I traded those brakes in for 45 bucks more for Suntour Superbe and those were the only higher end parts on the bike. The cluster was 13-24 Suntour Perfect and the front 53/42. The rims had eyelets and the chain was HKS I believe. The frame was flexy but light for a frame that came with heavy clunky looking lugs. The headtube wore a metal riveted Fuji Mountain Badge. The pedals said Suntour Cyclone but they looked exactly like those that said Suntour Superbe and Miche. The rear deraileur didn't last two years when I had to replace it with another ARX from Nashbar. The bike was satisfying and I believe was the only true race bike that Fuji offered at the time. The Fuji America and S-10-S were what I mostly saw of the hundreds of Fuji Bikes in Berkely that year. Mine was the only Team that I ever encountered. The bike shop refused to put a larger rear cog than the 24 it came with because he said that no bike leaves his shop with silly wimp gears even for those incredible S.F. hills!