Re: [CR]Common Superbe Pro bicycles?

(Example: Framebuilders:Brian Baylis)

From: "Galen" <gvpoole@bellsouth.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, "AdventureCORPS News" <news@adventurecorps.com>
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Subject: Re: [CR]Common Superbe Pro bicycles?
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:53:55 -0600
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Chris,

I no longer own any Japanese bikes, but at one time I had several, and really wanted some of the top of the line bikes with Superbe Pro or Dura Ace. The companies that typically used these components (and I'm sure there were many more) included Miyata, Bridgestone, Panasonic, and Shogun. I had a friend with a big-tube Klein (sorry Dale) with Superbe Pro, but I honestly don't know if it came that way, or if he fitted it out with the group. I have no idea if other American or European frame builders routinely used these groups, which in their first iterations were Campagnolo clones.

Galen Poole
Jackson, MS


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Subject: [CR]Common Superbe Pro bicycles?



> Hi
>
> This is my third and final post for the day. I only post about once every
> three months, so this is quite the flurry for me! Hopefully it's not a
> breach of etiquette.
>
> OK, so my question is this: I have one complete Superbe Pro group from the
> latter period of that group, plus quite a few parts from the Nuovo Record
> clone generation. I'm not sure when Superbe Pro died out, but I know it's
> post-1983, so let's keep this discussion to the correct period (I'm 99%
> sure that the NR clone Superbe Pro is pre-1983). Anyway, what brand and
> model of bikes commonly came with Superbe Pro as OEM, or as a common
> choice by bike shops that were building up framesets?
>
> I love these parts, but it seems weird to hang them on an Italian frame
> (and I don't own any Italian frames, anyway). If they were mainly put on
> Japanese bikes, what are some good examples? (I have a 1994 Bridgestone
> RB-1 set up with mostly Superbe pro, but that frame is OT here and the
> frame is several years "less old" than the parts on it.) So, regardless of
> national heritage, what's an "appropriate" home for Superbe Pro parts from
> the relevant era(s)?
>
> Thanks for any insights! Reply off- or on-list, as you see fit.
>
> Chris Kostman
> Oak Park, CA, USA
> http://www.adventurecorps.com