Re: [CR]1976 Fuji Catalog on Bulgier site

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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:03:39 -0800 (PST)
From: "John Barry" <usazorro@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]1976 Fuji Catalog on Bulgier site
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <303091.56169.qm@web82207.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


Those tubular rims would have most likely been UKAIs. Lace to Sansin (Suns hine) Pro-Am hubs if you want to follow the rest of the bike's original the me and build with the best that non-Shimano Japan had to offer.

Pictures when you're through please. :)

John Barry Mechanicsburg, PA, USA

--- On Fri, 11/21/08, Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net> wro
te:


> From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>

> Subject: Re: [CR]1976 Fuji Catalog on Bulgier site

> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org, rocketman_531@msn.com, ktk1_7_0_2_8@y
ahoo.com

> Date: Friday, November 21, 2008, 4:48 PM

> If you check the last page in the catalog, it gives the

> Newest specs:  Su

> ntour V, ratcheted SunTour DT shifters, DiaCompe Grand

> Compe brakes, Sugino

> Mightly Comp cranks, Sunshine Pro-Am hubs, Nitto bars and

> stem, MKS road p

> edals.  All the best non-Shimano Japanese components.  In

> other years t

> he component models may have changed, perhaps to Suntour

> Cyclone or Superbe

> , but the component manufacturers would have remained

> pretty much the same.

>   Odd thing is they list the Newest in only 22 1/2 inches

> and 24 inches.

>   I don't think that was correct, at least not for

> long.  I thought the

> Newest was available in a typical range of sizes.  Note

> that the Newest

> was definitely a racing bike, while the better known Finest

> was more of a S

> port bike which was suitable for light touring, although it

> could be raced

> and I'm sure a few were.  Both these models, however,

> came with tubular t

> ires.  The Ace was perhaps a more glamorous model, as

> Shimano was the fir

> st

> Japanese manufacturer to make a mark in the European

> peleton, in large par

> t thanks to the Freddy Maertens, Michael Pollentier and the

> Flandria team.

>   Indeed, I don't think Sun Tour ever did really

> establish themselves at

> the top level of European racing, although their stuff was

> more than good e

> nough to do so.  I think SunTour, like many of the French

> components used

> on constructeur and lesser touring bikes, is another

> example of the best s

> tuff not necessarily appearing in the peleton.

>  

> Regards,

>  

> Jerry Moos

> Big Spring, Texas, USA

>  

>

>

> --- On Fri, 11/21/08, Kevin Kruger

> <ktk1_7_0_2_8@yahoo.com> wrote:

>

> From: Kevin Kruger <ktk1_7_0_2_8@yahoo.com>

> Subject: [CR]1976 Fuji Catalog on Bulgier site

> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org, rocketman_531@msn.com

> Date: Friday, November 21, 2008, 2:30 PM

>

> Here's the address for the 1976 Fuji Newest catalog

> page found on Mark Bulg

> ier's great catalog site:

>  

> http://bulgier.net/pics/bike/catalogs/Fuji-76/Page02-03.JPG

>  

> Fuji line included Sugino, SunTour, Sunshine, Nitto, and

> Dia-Compe from top

> to bottom, except for the Ace which used Dura Ace stuff.

>  

> Part of me always wanted to own a Fuji Newest since I

> worked at a shop in t

> he mid 70s that carried the line.  That's when I owned

> and rode a Teledyn

> e Titan.

>  

> Hope this helps!

> Kevin Kruger - Grantville, PA (back from a 25 mile ride in

> the cold and sno

> w!)