Panasonic Team America Custom
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Panasonic Team America Custom
Panasonic Team America CustomBuy it Now: $2,000.00 plus boxing & shipping (& tax if applicable).
A Unicorn Bike-Panasonic Team America Custom
“At the upper end of the spectrum you have the unicorn bikes such as the Team Europe, Team America, Team Japan, Titainium, and PICS bikes.”
Panasonic Bicycles Virtual Museum
Frame & Fork
Frame: Tange Prestige (lugged)
Fork: Tange Prestige (lugged)
Top Tube: internally routed brake cable
Measurements (center to center)
Top Tube: 54 cm
Seat Tube: 51 cm
Down Tube: 60 cm
Unique features to frame:
(1) Down tube has a braze-on for internal routing of shift cables, (2) bottom shell has a braze-on exit point from frame for front derailleur shift cable, (3) drive side chain stay has a sheathed exit cable for the rear derailleur shift cable to pass through from the chain stay to the rear derailleur.
Components
Rims: Mavic MP40 700c 32 hole front/rear (scuffing on rim edge, see: pictures)
Hubs: Dura Ace
Brakes: Dura Ace
Headset: Dura Ace
Brake Levers: Dura Ace
Brake Hoods/Bar Tape: Dura Ace / fi’zick
Stem: SR Sakae Ringyo New Royal Super Light 110 mm (color matched paint in stem flutes)
Handlebar: Nitto Grand Raundoneur 135
Shifters: Dura Ace 7 speed S.I.S. braze-on down tube
Water Bottle Cages: Vintage Elite w/ red pads
Crank Arms: Dura Ace 170
Chain Rings: Shimano 53T/42T
Bottom Bracket: Shimano, Dura Ace (?), did not remove crank arms to check/confirm
Front Derailleur: Dura Ace
Rear Derailleur: Dura Ace
Seat Post: Dura Ace
Seat: Selle Italia Max SLR
Freewheel: Dura Ace 7 speed 12-26T cassette type
Tires: Compass Cayuse Pass 700c x 26 (New)
Pedals: Shimano PD-A520
Color:
1P-06 Sonic Red (best guess from Panasonic catalog, color code)
Serial Number:
8085022
Final Comments on Bike:
I had an auto paint shop do a color match of the bike paint color to paint the stem flutes and to touch up paint damage on the frame/fork. While this paint is a color match there is no way to match the pearlescence mixed into the original paint, which gives the painted frame/fork a lovely glow in the sunlight. The handlebar tape is wrapped over the exterior of the brake hoods because they are aged with fraying and cracks at their ends. An attempt to roll them back to install the handlebar tape under these brake hoods could have split them. This way they are protected from splitting and the upper exposed brake hood can continue to be used. Someone in the past appears to have used what looks like channel lock pliers on the head set adjustment nuts, see: pictures with head set adjustment nuts in them. Proper adjustment wrenches still fit on the adjustment nuts, and they can be used to adjust stem height and the headset. It always makes me shake my head to see this kind of senseless damage on a one-of bike.
