Thread: What is the present state of the Japanese bicycle industry?

It wasn't the Taiwanese who did the damage, it was when the dollar/yen ratio changed dramatically. Taiwan saved the Japanese bike companies because that is where they moved their production to. ... and it's a great way to stay in shape. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn5l9JwuUmk

Miyata is still making bikes... but as Koga Miyata. Right? 1988 Centurion Dave Scott Master Ironman 1985 Nishiki Century (too small) 1985 Schwinn Cruiser 5 (neglected)

Good question. The only brand I still see new in shops with any regularity is Fuji. I don't think the others export to the US market. Panasonic still produces bikes and it looks like Yellow Jersey imports them: http://www.yellowjersey.org/panak.html http://www.yellowjersey.org/posd7.html 1966 Bottecchia Professional (in progress...), 1973 Bottecchia Gran Turismo, 1974 Bottecchia Special (in progress..."Rosebud...

Rivendell gets their top end stuff made in Japan as do a few other companies I believe. I know that Grant just recently posted that the rising Yen is making that impossible while still maintaining a reasonable price. Considering I think the models are priced on the high end I can't imagine what unreasonable might be. I think Taiwan production really did damage to the Japanese bike market. Pretty sad since those Japanese bikes were...

document.write(' '); Clearly Japanese bikes are a major subset of C&V -- Miyata, Fuji, Panasonic, etc. And we all know about Shimano. But what we don't seem to see are new bikes from Japan. What are the Japanese producing, both steel and carbon? Thanks RFC