Interesting-"Miami Vice" Nishiki Mixte
02-28-20, 08:32 AM
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Interesting-"Miami Vice" Nishiki Mixte
While ambling through the usual haunts for vintage bikes I came across this today, a Nishiki Mixte with straight tube chromemoly lugged frame, but painted in "Miami Vice" colors, note the turquoise bar in the down tube decal and hash marks down the seat tube. It's up for auction at Shop Goodwill.
So whose ride is it, Tubs or Crocket?
Besides the Centurion Iron Man did other bike companies mine this color scheme?
So whose ride is it, Tubs or Crocket?
Besides the Centurion Iron Man did other bike companies mine this color scheme?
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02-28-20, 09:33 AM
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Most of the major brands succumbed to the trend to Miami Vice influenced pastel colours in the late 1980s. FYI, the subject bicycle is a 1987 Nishiki Sport in the Pearl Coral and Pearl White colour option.
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02-28-20, 09:52 AM
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Yep, fad colors for the times...the 80s. I wasn't a fan even though I was in my 20s at the time. Instead, I was on my Cobalt blue Pinarello completely built for... Triathlons.😀
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Thanks T-Mar and others. Nice bike and complete, but a little heavier than what I look for in a granddaughter build bike.
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I was a bigger fan of "Silk Stalkings" colors
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Oh, come now! Are you saying that you prefer those colours to Bianchi celeste? If ever there was a traditional bicycle brand colour that suited the late 1980s colour palette trend, it was celeste. Bianchi's celeste was perfectly pastel, perhaps a little too perfect. To show that they were hip to the market trend, Bianchi had to make a subtle change to the the formula and introduce mint celeste. It even cracked like it was exposed to the Miami sun. 
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I have a Nishiki Sport mixte, a bit older with muted burgundy paint and a silver head tube. They are well made bikes.
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Oh, come now! Are you saying that you prefer those colours to Bianchi celeste? If ever there was a traditional bicycle brand colour that suited the late 1980s colour palette trend, it was celeste. Bianchi's celeste was perfectly pastel, perhaps a little too perfect. To show that they were hip to the market trend, Bianchi had to make a subtle change to the the formula and introduce mint celeste. It even cracked like it was exposed to the Miami sun.
No I liked Silk Stalkings better than Miami Vice
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