PSA: Stainless Steel on CL!

[josephr]

And you think the new crop of stainless steel bikes are inventive? This proves its just another rehash from an era gone by. ;)

http://bham.craigslist.org/bik/5511943259.html

[fiamme red]

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/japan.html#kabuki

When Japanese bikes were in high fashion, many companies went out of their way to market bikes under Japanese-associated names, including Lotus, Mikado, Shogun, and probably others. Kabuki was a trade name of Bridgestone (a Japanese company with a non-Japanese name!)

The Kabuki line used some unusual construction techniques, specifically, a system of sticking the frame tubes into a special mold and forming cast aluminum "lugs" in place around the ends of the tubes. The most notable of this line was the "Submariner" which used un-painted stainless steel tubing, and was marketed in seacoast areas for its rust-resistance. Because the cast aluminum lugs were not flexible like steel lugs, these bikes didn't use a conventional seat-post binder. Instead, they used a seat post with an expander wedge like that of a handlebar stem...you had to remove the saddle from the seatpost to adjust the height, then re-install the saddle! Even sillier, many of these frames had what looked like a conventional seatpost bolt mounted in a projection of the rigid lug, simply to provide a place to mount a cable stop for the center-pull caliper brake!

[pbarry]

They are really heavy and only the main triangle is SS, iirc
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[binxnyrwarrsoul]

Built like a tank. 'Cause that's a draw.

[TimD]

I had one, not stainless. Big frame, it was a tank. Stolen out of my basement.
I missed it for a while.