Here is a link to the framebuilder who built Nakano's bikes. A KOF if there ever was one!
http://www.yellowjersey.org/
Nick Zatezalo Atlanta,Ga
-----Forwarded Message----- From: David Feldman <feldmanbike@yahoo.com> Sent: Jun 5, 2004 6:29 PM To: jerrymoos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>, themaaslands@comcast.net, Classic Rendezvous <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Subject: Re: [CR]Was: "E-bay Pog. - is it the realdeal?"..Nowbroaderthoughts....
Mens' professional sprint--something like ten times!
David Feldman
Vancouver, WA
> What event/events was Nakano world champion in?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry Moos
> Houston, Tx
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> To: "Classic Rendezvous"
> <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 2:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [CR]Was: "E-bay Pog. - is it the
> realdeal?"..Nowbroaderthoughts....
>
>
> > Jerry wrote:
> >
> > > Well, I think the Japanese and especially the
> Chinese know a hell of a
> lot
> > > about bicycles, and in the case of China,
> cycling is today much more
> > > prominent than in any European country. The
> difference is that no Asian
> > > nation has ever been prominent in cycling as a
> sport. Rather, cycling
> in
> > > Asia seems mostly focused on transportation. So
> perhaps that might
> > > translate into lack of inspiration in
> manufacturing lightweights,
> although
> > > the same logic would suggest that the Chinese,
> and maybe the Indians,
> should
> > > make the best utilitarian roadsters in the world
> - perhaps they do.
> >
> > We must have been to two different Chinas. In all
> the parts of China that
> I have visted recently, the bicycles are on a great
> decline and the bicycle
> ownership and usership is far lower than in the
> Netherlands or Denmark. If
> you want to find a nation where cycling is truly the
> number one mode of
> transport, go to Vietnam! It is harder and more
> dangerous to cross a street
> in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) than it is in New Yorl
> City or Tokyo. In China,
> most of the new bikes are the same ones being
> offered at your local Walmart,
> pseudo mountain bikes.
> >
> > > It may be that Asian riders, like Americans for
> many decades, are
> > > handicapped by the lack of any culture of
> bicycle racing in their
> homelands.
> >
> > Ask Dennis about bicycle racing culture in Japan.
> I am certain that he
> will confirm that it is alive and well. The only
> reason why the Japanese
> don't leave Japan is there is no need to. A Japanese
> pro can readily earn
> more by racing in Japan than by going to Europe,
> without needing to leave
> family culture and friends behind. Nakano readily
> showed this. If I am not
> mistaken, he only raced a few times outside of
> Japan, but was nonetheless
> able to beat the world for a whole decade. And no,
> he was not world champion
> in a Japanese specialty like Keirin.
> >
> > --
> > Steven Maasland
> > Moorestown, NJ
> >
> >
> >
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