H-Ball is covered throughout the whole website and in a special section.īTW: Do yourself a favour set your pop up blocker. Consider for example the boned & bolted models. Go check them out in the '1st gen bonded and bolted' and '2nd gen bolted and bolted' sections on this site.Īn essential part in the whole Miyata mountainbikestory is of course Miyata's flamboyant Teamrider Greg Herbold, aka H-Ball, aka Hairball. Do I like this guy whether he choose riding the right bike? Or consider I Miyatas as the right bike because H-Ball rode them? Guess they were we just an excellent match. Furthermore Miyatas had a kind of quirkyness. On those early (Koga) Miyata mountainbikes can be said that it were sturdy bikes and that serious Weight Weenies could better go elsewere. I owned a couple Miyata bikes a long time ago and they're still my favorite.
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Part of what made Miyata bikes so fun to ride is that the bike frame tubing was made using the same process that Miyata had used for rifle barrels, which gave the bike superior tensile strength. Made in Japan) Measures 20' from seat post opening down to the top of the sprocket housing. That inspired Miyata to begin producing steel frame bikes.
#Vintage miyata bikes serial number#
Serial Number B512866 (indicates manufacture date of 1973. Furthermore as the purpose is showing some nice Vintage stuff my coverage will end around mid nineties. RARE- VINTAGE 1973 MIYATA LADIES TOURING ROAD BIKE'SPORTS MODEL' JAPAN- VERY GOOD 10 ont sprocket has 2 rows of gears and the rear has 5 rows. This wedsite is solely on Miyata and Koga Miyata mountainbikes. I won't serving visitors properly by covering those. I am a not really into roadbikes, trekkingbikes etc. Not just cheap marketingtalk - Kogas are indeed classy and refined. When you are out looking for a bike the seller will probably point out a Koga is to be considered the 'Roller' under the bikes. Cleaning and detailing theInstalling vintage road bike fenders. Using the Miyata frames the Koga concept was aimed at the upscale bikemarket in Holland.
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Bikes meant for utility purposes, but also very advanced bikes for succesfully competing. Since 1890 the people of Miyata in the land of the rising sun produce bikes of all kind.