mystery Kuwahara: components
4130 chro-mo tubing, including fork; Sugino VP triple with 52/44/36 teeth & 175 mm cranks; MKS Sylvan pedals (they and the bottom bracket all spin freely and happily); low-end Suntour α-3000 derailer (which suggest circa 1987-89 if original) paired with basic Shimano shifters (discontinued after mid-1990s.)
Mid-fork braze-ons for lowriders or a rack. A 700 x 32C Kenda Qwest fits in the fork with room for carefully installed fenders, but I'm not sure I could get one in the back. Horizontal rear dropouts, integrated rear cable stop for center-pull cantis. Kuwahara Cyclone headset. Heavy-duty quill stem that I should have taken a photo of.
20 lbs as found. I am just a sucker for derelict bikes.
[edit] Snooping around on forums yields a best guess that it is a Kuwahara Parkway. The crankset seems to be an upgrade, and likely the SunTour ders as well. Although a 700c wheel fits in the front (and possibly might just fit in the back) the brake posts would be in the wrong place, unless one wanted to buy fancy brakes that are worth way more than the bike (...or an add-on bracket that sits on the existing posts and provides newer ones higher up/further from the hub.) So a 26" touring mtn cruiser it is!
When this rideable, this will be a boon companion to the Kuwahara Blazer mixte I got rolling last year.
update: serial #86123562 seems to indicate a date-of-manufacture in Dec 1986, which jives with the earliest estimate based on the derailleur line.
mystery Kuwahara: components
4130 chro-mo tubing, including fork; Sugino VP triple with 52/44/36 teeth & 175 mm cranks; MKS Sylvan pedals (they and the bottom bracket all spin freely and happily); low-end Suntour α-3000 derailer (which suggest circa 1987-89 if original) paired with basic Shimano shifters (discontinued after mid-1990s.)
Mid-fork braze-ons for lowriders or a rack. A 700 x 32C Kenda Qwest fits in the fork with room for carefully installed fenders, but I'm not sure I could get one in the back. Horizontal rear dropouts, integrated rear cable stop for center-pull cantis. Kuwahara Cyclone headset. Heavy-duty quill stem that I should have taken a photo of.
20 lbs as found. I am just a sucker for derelict bikes.
[edit] Snooping around on forums yields a best guess that it is a Kuwahara Parkway. The crankset seems to be an upgrade, and likely the SunTour ders as well. Although a 700c wheel fits in the front (and possibly might just fit in the back) the brake posts would be in the wrong place, unless one wanted to buy fancy brakes that are worth way more than the bike (...or an add-on bracket that sits on the existing posts and provides newer ones higher up/further from the hub.) So a 26" touring mtn cruiser it is!
When this rideable, this will be a boon companion to the Kuwahara Blazer mixte I got rolling last year.
update: serial #86123562 seems to indicate a date-of-manufacture in Dec 1986, which jives with the earliest estimate based on the derailleur line.