Did you see the NIB Kabuki?
07-19-18, 12:07 PM
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Did you see the NIB Kabuki?
https://portland.craigslist.org/clc/...632971502.html
It doesn’t look like a high end bike, but that’s still Really cool. I would love to find something like that in my size someday when I have some cash burning a hole in my pocket.
It doesn’t look like a high end bike, but that’s still Really cool. I would love to find something like that in my size someday when I have some cash burning a hole in my pocket.
07-19-18, 02:11 PM
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Nice. Hope it gets ridden.
07-19-18, 02:15 PM
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fairly entry level bike with the worlds coolest head badge 
07-19-18, 02:26 PM
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Entry level model, 2nd from the bottom of the line during the era. Hi-tensile steel frame with stamped dropouts, steel rims, nutted hubs, stem shifters, safety levers, swaged crankset. Speaking of the head badge, note the absence of the Bridgestone reference used on earlier models. By this time Itoh had ceased its joint venture with Bridgestone and was using other contract manufacturers, Regardless of NIB condition, it would still need a complete overhaul prior to being ridden, so the asking price is very high. Only those with a sentimental attachment to La Veloz need apply.
07-19-18, 06:09 PM
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Yeah, it's cool but once you take it out of the box and assemble it, it's just a cheap old bike that I, for one, wouldn't want (even if it are my size).
Useful as a movie or TV prop, but otherwise, not so much.
Useful as a movie or TV prop, but otherwise, not so much.
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07-19-18, 07:41 PM
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I still have the box and everything for my '78 DT that I bought new, but I have ridden mine
. Time sure does fly!
. Time sure does fly!
