Originally Posted by
uncle uncle
It's my opinion, based on my own sometimes non-science biased testing and oftentimes unsubstantiated personal observations (sometimes delivered with beer in hand), that as the decade of the 70's lingered on nigh almost 10 years, that Japanese entry level bicycles got better and better. I like the Japanese bicycles of the era too, I just thought it'd be fun to highlight France's output.
Sorry, I didn't mean to derail the thread. And the French were way ahead of the Japanese in this respect. This particular Miyata is a bit of a strange beast, and may even be the proverbial exception to the rule. My guess is that it was based on the Koga "race series" design, but not deemed profitable or flashy enough by Koga to make it to their catalog. Miyata ended up flogging most of them through their Canadian dealerships, or so I've read.