Peter,
<Are there Japanese websites devoted to all this primo stuff in the hands of Japanese collectors?>
Yes. Check these out:
http://members.aol.com/
http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/
http://www014.upp.so-net.ne.jp/
As far as vintage rides go, I am not too sure about that.
Regards,
Ted Baer
Palo Alto, CA
--- "kohl57@starpower.net" <kohl57@starpower.net>
wrote:
> Here's an open-ended question with no agenda or
> presumed answer:
>
> We all know many of the keenest classic lightweight
> enthusiasts are from
> Japan. Or at least we think so because of their,
> shall we say, enthusiastic
> eBay bidding tendencies. If there's a Simplex skewer
> with the little
> plastic wing-nut intact that hasn't gone to Japan
> via eBay, I'll put it up
> my left nostral.
>
> But having said that, where is the evidence of this
> enthusiasm beyond the
> acquisition of the bikes and the bits? Are there
> Japanese websites devoted
> to all this primo stuff in the hands of Japanese
> collectors? Do the
> Japanese organise veteran cycle rides? Or does all
> this stuff just get hung
> on walls and squirreled away? Are there Japanese
> books or magazines on
> classic lightweights?
>
> I know of one of two PX-10 websites from Japan, one
> on Campagnolo
> components but that's about it. Is there is Japanese
> version of the CR List?
>
> My own and rewarding experience with Japanese
> enthusiasts is with ocean
> liners where they are active historians, writers and
> publishers. I just
> wonder if I am missing something here with bicycles.
> I conjure up this
> image of 200 PX-10s all with Simplex skewers with
> the plastic wingnuts
> being ridden in some epic mass ride... if it's
> happened, I've missed it.
>
> Peter Kohler
> Washington DC USA
>
>
--------------------------------------------------------------------
> mail2web - Check your email from the web at
> http://mail2web.com/