Apollo was (one of many brands) made by Kuwahara in the 70's. It was
imported by Fred Deeley of Vancouver. Deeley was a motorcycle dealer in
Vancouver, and imported bicycles for a short time. Your Apollo may have a
winged Deeley decal on the downtube. Kuwahara/Apollo made mostly low-end,
gaspipe bikes for the bike boom, but there are a few really nice hi-end
models as well.
They also did mountain bikes. I have a Kuwahara/Apollo Sierra Grande. Very
light, well made butted/lugged cro-mo frame.
http://www.kuwaharabicycles.com/
Hope this helps.
Sherry Buttnor
Metchosin BC Canada.
>I recently bought a used Apollo "Gran Sport" bike for my daughter. It
> appears to be an early to mid 1980's mid grade bike. It has a Vancouver
> Canada license on it, and appears to be of Japanese manufacture.
>
> Does anyone know anything about this brand? I've never seen or heard of
> it
> before.
>
> thx,
>
> Mark Birnbaum
> Novato, CA
> USA