Re: [CR]A Fine $15 Miyata Tourer!

(Example: Framebuilding:Technology)

From: "Garrison Hilliard" <garrison@efn.org>
To: ABikie@aol.com
Cc: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 16:34:14 -800
Subject: Re: [CR]A Fine $15 Miyata Tourer!


>> It actually looks a lot pricier than that! I didn't know you could get a
>> cro-moly, butted frame for that, even back then!
>>
>> p.s. I'll probably be switching out the "1024 Hi-Ten" fork for the chromed
>> cro-moly one on the Nishiki Olympic frame that I offered here and
>> (luckily) didn't sell.
>>
>
>I since remember that there, in the later years, may have been a 'Miyata 90
>or 80' bumping the 110 into the 'step-up cat.
>did it have what the kids mistakenly called 'allied ' rims or >were they steel?

Araya 27 1/4" Alloy (Weinemann copies, not the ridged rims) and a brazxed-on der. hanger, not a "BEHIND-THE-WHEEL" jobbie.

Although mine is red, there's a bike VERY close to it pictured at:

webpages.marshall.edu/~rinscoe/bikesite/html/miyata110.html