Re: [CR]Re: Japanese Bikes

(Example: Bike Shops:R.E.W. Reynolds)

Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:10:07 -0700
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Japanese Bikes
References: <6b.ce8cd6a.2bab22fa@aol.com>


Larry Black wrote:
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> I might even have one of their O.N.P. Pro models in the Champagne color with
> clean, tapered long point lugs and a full sloping crown.
> I would have had an extra one but in haste I returned it because the bottle
> eyes were placed on the seat tube instred of the downtube.

Boy those Nishiki O.N.P. Pro models were something! I belonged to Montrose CC in the midlate-1970s and they were sponsored by SunTour and Nishiki and those were the frames that were provided. Seem to remember that someone famous (in Japan) built them for Nishiki? Anyone?

Chuck Schmidt L.A.

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