For the love of Nishikis, show it with love!
03-10-15, 10:41 PM
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For the love of Nishikis, show it with love!
Just finished restoring my '77 Nishiki International that I bought for $30 from CL. I repainted the bike not with the original color, but with a little custom Italian flare to make it a little distinct from what it used to be. The suicide brake levers was replaced other than that, the bike components are still the original ones. 
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My Nishiki Altron 86' , I was given this frame when I bought another frame from a very nice gentleman . It had a Brian Baylis paint job when I got it , I tried to save it but because I did not have a understanding of day-glo paint it was not going well so I just started from scratch . Turned out so so and then because I didn't use the correct clear coat I ruined a set of Velocals . Any way this bike is a hoot to ride . Here are some specs.
Vitus alum. fork .
Shimano 600 hubs , free wheel , Velocity Pro Elite tubular rims , Tufo s33 700 x21 tires .
Dura Ace 7401 FD , RD
Shimano Arabesque 600 shift levers .
Tektro R580 brakes Sunlite levers .
Sr Sakae Aerox crank , Shimano 600 BB , Wellgo pedals
Cheapie saddle mast , saddle , bar stem , bars .
Hope you like it .
Vitus alum. fork .
Shimano 600 hubs , free wheel , Velocity Pro Elite tubular rims , Tufo s33 700 x21 tires .
Dura Ace 7401 FD , RD
Shimano Arabesque 600 shift levers .
Tektro R580 brakes Sunlite levers .
Sr Sakae Aerox crank , Shimano 600 BB , Wellgo pedals
Cheapie saddle mast , saddle , bar stem , bars .
Hope you like it .
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02-12-17, 06:24 PM
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02-12-17, 07:20 PM
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Hard to believe we haven't has a "Show Us Your Nishiki" thread before.
Here's my '84 Landau, which I should really pull down off the shelf and ride, or sell, or something. It's been years now.
Here's my '84 Landau, which I should really pull down off the shelf and ride, or sell, or something. It's been years now.
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● 1971 Grandis SL ● 1972 Lambert Grand Prix frankenbike ● 1972 Raleigh Super Course fixie ● 1973 Nishiki Semi-Pro ● 1979 Motobecane Grand Jubile ●1980 Apollo "Legnano" ● 1984 Peugeot Vagabond ● 1985 Shogun Prairie Breaker ● 1986 Merckx Super Corsa ● 1987 Schwinn Tempo ● 1988 Schwinn Voyageur ● 1989 Bottechia Team ADR replica ● 1990 Cannondale ST600 ● 1993 Technium RT600 ● 1996 Kona Lava Dome ●
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Steel is real , nice bikes @since6 and @Lascauxcaveman mine I forgot to add is Alum. it has a repair on the chain stay like I think most of the Altrons do .
02-12-17, 07:43 PM
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thanks for the Nishiki memories. wish i could post mine, it was my first real road bike bought in high school in 1973 with money saved. A brown Nishiki International with them fabulous alloy wheels and components.
Nishiki always had the great ads in Bicycling magazine; i remember one being pictured with a Rolls Royce, what a classy ride. And that is the way i still feel about that old 70's Nishiki International...the best bicycle on the planet...the greatest bicycle on the planet.
Thank you Nishiki;
Nishiki always had the great ads in Bicycling magazine; i remember one being pictured with a Rolls Royce, what a classy ride. And that is the way i still feel about that old 70's Nishiki International...the best bicycle on the planet...the greatest bicycle on the planet.
Thank you Nishiki;
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02-12-17, 08:41 PM
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My story is similar. For $150 I bought my 1971 American Eagle Semi-Pro (Nishiki Competition), which was my first truly decent bicycle, halfway through my junior year at UCLA. Despite a dock strike and resulting shortage of inventory during the Bike Boom, Russ Hughes, the owner of Rancho Park Cycles, found a slightly damaged yellow one for me. He rebrazed the forward brake cable stop, touched up the paint, and it was good as new.
I invited a friend along for a 45-mile break-in ride through the Santa Monica mountains, but only after I replaced the original padded saddle with my old Ideale tensioned leather one. My friend commented, "Ah ... all the discomforts of home."
I rode it for 20 years / 40k miles, until the seat tube lug broke away from the bottom bracket shell. During that time I tightened up the gear ratios and built up a second wheelset for it, with Fiamme tubular rims and low-flange Campag. Record hubs. Though double-butted CrMo, the frame really was nothing special, but it did carry me to a 12 hr 18 min double century in 1972, so I can't complain. I am much more partial to the late 1970s and 1980s Nishikis, which demonstrated how much Kawamura learned about frame building in a relatively short period of time.
I invited a friend along for a 45-mile break-in ride through the Santa Monica mountains, but only after I replaced the original padded saddle with my old Ideale tensioned leather one. My friend commented, "Ah ... all the discomforts of home."
I rode it for 20 years / 40k miles, until the seat tube lug broke away from the bottom bracket shell. During that time I tightened up the gear ratios and built up a second wheelset for it, with Fiamme tubular rims and low-flange Campag. Record hubs. Though double-butted CrMo, the frame really was nothing special, but it did carry me to a 12 hr 18 min double century in 1972, so I can't complain. I am much more partial to the late 1970s and 1980s Nishikis, which demonstrated how much Kawamura learned about frame building in a relatively short period of time.
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"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt
Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
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02-12-17, 08:55 PM
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Nope -- After the frame broke, I moved the components to a 1973 UO-8 someone had given me. The aluminum cranks and rims turned the lowly UO-8 into something surprisingly good, and I rode it until I broke the chainstay right between the chainring and tire clearance dimples. (Yes, I am hard on bike frames, despite weighing less than 150lbs most of my life.
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Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt
Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
02-12-17, 09:40 PM
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1985 Prestige...I restored it for a tall buddy.
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To me the most interesting thing about this Nishiki Professional was its international mix of a beautiful Japanese frame with Campagnolo Nuovo Record components. Haven't seen that before. I think that in the early 80s not much love was lost between the two countries bike industries.
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To me the most interesting thing about this Nishiki Professional was its international mix of a beautiful Japanese frame with Campagnolo Nuovo Record components. Haven't seen that before. I think that in the early 80s not much love was lost between the two countries bike industries.
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ok, to keep it alive
This started as a brand new purchase in 1982.....for 6 month my transportation when I moved to San jose. Rode it all over Silicon Valley and even did a couple of triathalons before I got my Miyata
I got back into bikes in a deep way (and started my BF addiction) rebuilding this into it's current "japanese 8 speed" format. All that is original is the frame, fork and seatpost...and headbadge. This is what i learned about Brooks seats, cold setting stays, bottom bracket swapping, headset removal and installation, wheel building, frame painting, cork grips, 700 c conversion and so on.
This started as a brand new purchase in 1982.....for 6 month my transportation when I moved to San jose. Rode it all over Silicon Valley and even did a couple of triathalons before I got my Miyata
I got back into bikes in a deep way (and started my BF addiction) rebuilding this into it's current "japanese 8 speed" format. All that is original is the frame, fork and seatpost...and headbadge. This is what i learned about Brooks seats, cold setting stays, bottom bracket swapping, headset removal and installation, wheel building, frame painting, cork grips, 700 c conversion and so on.
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Nishiki Sport
My buddy's wife found this Sport in stock condition at a yard sale. They kept it in their shed for a while, then he gave it to me when they decided to have a yard sale themselves.
It had 27" wheels with dry rotted tires and stem shifters. I did a frame transplant with a Zebra I'd converted to single speed that was getting rusty.
