Re: [CR] Classic FUJI Bicycle Identification Home

(Example: Framebuilders:Masi)

From: "Andrew R Stewart" <onetenth@earthlink.net>
To: <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, Charles Nighbor <cnighbor1@comcast.net>
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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 21:47:41 -0500
Subject: Re: [CR] Classic FUJI Bicycle Identification Home


Jerry- My understanding is that the Fuji HiTen tubing was basic carbon steel, 1020 or 1018 or the Jap. equivalent if I had to guess. Those early 1970s S10-S's were quite heavy for a bike with lots of alloy parts, 29-30 pounds by my memory. This would make sense if the frame was thick walled as HiTen frames usually are.

Now the Val-Lite tubing used in the mid priced Fujis of the early 1980s was much nicer and lighter stuff.

Andy Stewart
Raleigh, NC


----- Original Message -----
From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


<cnighbor1@comcast.net> Cc: <onetenth@earthlink.net> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 9:15 PM Subject: Re: [CR] Classic FUJI Bicycle Identification Home


>I note the S-10-S is speciified with "High-Tension" steel tubing. Was this
>just carbon steel, or something a bit better?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry Moos
> Big Spring, Texas, USA