Originally Posted by
tendency
Solid bikes those late 80s high end miyatas. my personal, unsolicited opinion, is that the high water mark in terms of Miayata build quality was the early 80s - those Pro and Team bikes were gorge. by the mid to late 80s Miyata started cutting corners to keep costs down with the massive Yen depreciation.
Do you know the years of the Pro Miyatas? I picked up one from a forumite that while quite rusted (sat outside; photos revealed all so no surprises). Mine has the SunTour Symmetric (?) top of DT shifters, cables run old-school over the BB through cable housing, no ST WB bosses, no HT pump peg, horizontal dropouts and squeezed areo-like fork and seatstay blades. The ride? Stiff, quick, solid, no surprises at all! (Is there better? I've never ridden it.) Haven't done a killer downhill yet but the bike just gets more secure the faster I go.
I'm guessing '84, 85. The bladed tubes suggest to me later but the shifter, cable runs, WB bosses and horizontal dropouts all say earlier. The tubing? Miyata DB Cr-Mo. What;s that? (Besides feeling simply super and being very hard to cold set.0