1960s & 1970s bike catalogs

A Japanese site with lots of scans of Japanese bike catalogs from the
1960s and 1970s for Shimano, Mafac, TA, Wolber, Simplex, Campagnolo,
and so on:

http://209.85.135.104/translate_c?hl...language_tools
or
http://tinyurl.com/46phrh

The computerized translation is well-nigh incomprehensible ("bag of
dog" seems to mean "touring bag" and "cars" seems to mean "bicycles"),
but the catalogs themselves may interest posters with bikes from that
era.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

On Apr 21, 1:14*pm, wrote:
A Japanese site with lots of scans of Japanese bike catalogs from the
1960s and 1970s for Shimano, Mafac, TA, Wolber, Simplex, Campagnolo,
and so on:

http://209.85.135.104/translate_c?hl...-8&langpair=ja...
or
*http://tinyurl.com/46phrh

The computerized translation is well-nigh incomprehensible ("bag of
dog" seems to mean "touring bag" and "cars" seems to mean "bicycles"),
but the catalogs themselves may interest posters with bikes from that
era.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

That's quite a find, Carl -- much better than the 1889 patents. I
lusted after that '74 De Rosa, and I owned the '76 Dura Ace. Many fond
memories, and the Japanese bikes of the era -- like the Nagasawa --
look pretty nice. I wonder if any of those were imported in to the
US. -- Jay Beattie.

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:53:34 -0700 (PDT), Jay Beattie
wrote:

On Apr 21, 1:14*pm, wrote:
A Japanese site with lots of scans of Japanese bike catalogs from the
1960s and 1970s for Shimano, Mafac, TA, Wolber, Simplex, Campagnolo,
and so on:

http://209.85.135.104/translate_c?hl...-8&langpair=ja...
or
*http://tinyurl.com/46phrh

The computerized translation is well-nigh incomprehensible ("bag of
dog" seems to mean "touring bag" and "cars" seems to mean "bicycles"),
but the catalogs themselves may interest posters with bikes from that
era.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

That's quite a find, Carl -- much better than the 1889 patents. I
lusted after that '74 De Rosa, and I owned the '76 Dura Ace. Many fond
memories, and the Japanese bikes of the era -- like the Nagasawa --
look pretty nice. I wonder if any of those were imported in to the
US. -- Jay Beattie.

Dear Jay,

Glad you like it.

All that new-fangled stuff looks alike to me.

:-)

Cheers,

Carl Fogel