Post Your Bridgestones -- The Unofficial Bridgestone Thread
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12-22-20, 01:13 PM
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I can’t even... you must have been very good this year for Santa to lead you to a NOS XO.
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12-22-20, 10:21 PM
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12-23-20, 02:01 PM
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12-23-20, 02:16 PM
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The photos, to include the bike assembled, were from the seller's for sale post on Craigslist - I'll post photos with Campagnolo deep-dish 26" rims/DA hubs, Paul brakes, Velo Orange crankset, Thomson seatpost, Nitto Techtomic Quill and Brooks saddle in a month.
My preemptive apologies to those purest, but this will not collect dust,
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12-23-20, 04:10 PM
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Yes, thats the original Ritchey stem/quill.
The photos, to include the bike assembled, were from the seller's for sale post on Craigslist - I'll post photos with Campagnolo deep-dish 26" rims/DA hubs, Paul brakes, Velo Orange crankset, Thomson seatpost, Nitto Techtomic Quill and Brooks saddle in a month.
My preemptive apologies to those purest, but this will not collect dust,
The photos, to include the bike assembled, were from the seller's for sale post on Craigslist - I'll post photos with Campagnolo deep-dish 26" rims/DA hubs, Paul brakes, Velo Orange crankset, Thomson seatpost, Nitto Techtomic Quill and Brooks saddle in a month.
My preemptive apologies to those purest, but this will not collect dust,
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12-26-20, 03:44 PM
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1993 7 cog (with those hidden-spring Superbe Pro brakes). I like the look of them stock - although being stretched out gets a bit uncomfortable on long rides. I'm a sucker for form over function - and white panels. Recently added nice Suberbe Pro pedals and NOS Suberbe Pro hoods (I'll never admit what I paid - actually, mercifully I've forgotten).
12-27-20, 11:42 AM
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Yes, thats the original Ritchey stem/quill.
The photos, to include the bike assembled, were from the seller's for sale post on Craigslist - I'll post photos with Campagnolo deep-dish 26" rims/DA hubs, Paul brakes, Velo Orange crankset, Thomson seatpost, Nitto Techtomic Quill and Brooks saddle in a month.
My preemptive apologies to those purest, but this will not collect dust,
The photos, to include the bike assembled, were from the seller's for sale post on Craigslist - I'll post photos with Campagnolo deep-dish 26" rims/DA hubs, Paul brakes, Velo Orange crankset, Thomson seatpost, Nitto Techtomic Quill and Brooks saddle in a month.
My preemptive apologies to those purest, but this will not collect dust,
12-29-20, 09:13 PM
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That said, once all my parts arrive I will set this bike up for SoCal canyon/gravel rides, just as I did on my previous XO-1 (see attached).
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12-29-20, 09:24 PM
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Hi all. I thought to post this in one of the CL eBay threads, but I'm not sure which one, so I came here. Is it cool, or just peculiar? Submariner 12
Here's what Sheldon Brown has to say about it: The Kabuki line used some unusual construction techniques, specifically, a system of sticking the frame tubes into a special mold and forming cast aluminum "lugs" in place around the ends of the tubes. The most notable of this line was the "Submariner" which used un-painted stainless steel tubing, and was marketed in seacoast areas for its rust-resistance. Because the cast aluminum lugs were not flexible like steel lugs, these bikes didn't use a conventional seat-post binder. Instead, they used a seat post with an expander wedge like that of a handlebar stem...you had to remove the saddle from the seatpost to adjust the height, then re-install the saddle! Even sillier, many of these frames had what looked like a conventional seatpost bolt mounted in a projection of the rigid lug, simply to provide a place to mount a cable stop for the center-pull caliper brake!
Here's what Sheldon Brown has to say about it: The Kabuki line used some unusual construction techniques, specifically, a system of sticking the frame tubes into a special mold and forming cast aluminum "lugs" in place around the ends of the tubes. The most notable of this line was the "Submariner" which used un-painted stainless steel tubing, and was marketed in seacoast areas for its rust-resistance. Because the cast aluminum lugs were not flexible like steel lugs, these bikes didn't use a conventional seat-post binder. Instead, they used a seat post with an expander wedge like that of a handlebar stem...you had to remove the saddle from the seatpost to adjust the height, then re-install the saddle! Even sillier, many of these frames had what looked like a conventional seatpost bolt mounted in a projection of the rigid lug, simply to provide a place to mount a cable stop for the center-pull caliper brake!
12-30-20, 07:56 AM
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I may be part of a minority but I always thought Submariners were sort of cool - a step-thru may even add to it...
And since I'm already here
And since I'm already here
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Hello. New to the forum. I always liked the RB frames, nice color. I have a Bridgestone Grand Kabuki.,4130 chro moly frame.I bought it in 1982.Have restored it numerous times and its still my main ride.Steel is real.
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12-30-20, 04:51 PM
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12-30-20, 05:33 PM
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12-31-20, 02:08 PM
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01-01-21, 04:05 PM
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Not mine, but spotted on the streets of Portland, Oregon last month: A '92 XO1! Once again, not mine.
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01-03-21, 07:00 PM
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Finally ran across a reasonably priced Bridgestone that I was interested in. This is a 1988 RB-3. It is one of the Taiwanese built frames made with Tange 5 P.G.(Plain Gauge) Cr-Mo. Looks to be mostly stock other than the cockpit/pedals/seat.
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Wife and I did a little gravel grind atop levees along north side of San Francisco Bay today. We’ve owned these XO-1s since new, were our commuters for a number of years but now just for runs to the store, brewery, or mild gravel grinds. Packed a lunch, couple of beers and saw nobody (until we got back to parking lot and some walkers were about). Lows 70s, no wind, and its mid-January...lovely.
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01-24-21, 07:21 PM
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Wife and I did a little gravel grind atop levees along north side of San Francisco Bay today. We’ve owned these XO-1s since new, were our commuters for a number of years but now just for runs to the store, brewery, or mild gravel grinds. Packed a lunch, couple of beers and saw nobody (until we got back to parking lot and some walkers were about). Lows 70s, no wind, and its mid-January...lovely.
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Rush Creek?..
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01-26-21, 12:22 AM
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My son and I are riding matching T700's on a gravel overnighter.
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