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Originally Posted by LEAKYSEALS951
Add bike thief to my resume! 
We live in a very rural area. I'm going to post "bike found" signs at the ends of the road I found it on and if no one claims it, it's mine.
Interesting find. Nishiki Prestige. Never a great bike, but not total crap. What amazed me is that everything (sans tires) works. Chain even works. All cables work. All bearings. Everything is in adjustment. It reminds me of how well the pre SIS worked back in the day. One of my favorite parts is the rear rack, which says "Jim Blackburn", not just Blackburn. It also has neet hooks for attaching stuff on the dropouts.
I will probably just get some tires and be done with it. Funny how you can have 1000 more important projects around the house, and at least for me I concentrate on the least common denominator of a project (this one)- enjoyable though.
Bad news, I don't know what to do with it. 170mm cranks. 10 speed (I live in mtn's and like wider ranges), 38mm? bars. Wonky stuff... but oh well. A good day over all! I just couldn't let this thing rust any more on the side of the road!  |
I worked at a Bicycle Shop on Main Street in Seal Beach California when this bike was brand new. We sold a ton of these. I wish that life could be as simple as it was in summer of '85 at age 19. The only worries of the day was would lunch come from Nick's Deli or the Taco Shop next door. Listening to KNAC back when it was a New Wave Station prior to it turning Heavy Metal and later to a Spanish Station.
I worked with my best friends who I still keep in contact with. Bikes were our lives and two of us are still in the biz. I still live close to Seal Beach and I would love to retire in that town that we refer to as "Mulberry" in Southern California.
Every now and then I spot a bike from that era and I'll see the shop's decal on the frame. When I placed our shops sticker on bikes that we sold or serviced I would use my pointer finger as a gauge under the front derailleur My finger is a little fatter than it was back in the late 1980's but I still find bikes that had been wrenched on by a younger me.
