Panasonic - 2019 ? NAHBS intel?

[Michael Maddox]

Originally Posted by doomridesout

So where's a picture? I'd love to see it.

It's about to be rebuilt with Campy Athena 11-speed. Currently, it looks like this...

I had an Ultegra group on it, but it just didn't feel right. It needs an all-silver build.

[AngryScientist]

That is a real beauty Michael!

[dddd]

I talked to one of the two guys at the booth, could have used a translator but I did find out that he himself had painted the steel bike.

[dddd]

Originally Posted by AngryScientist

i was initially thinking that, but check out those welds, and especially that gusset plate (which would you even do with Ti?) - they;re yuge, looks much more like aluminum puddles no?

The gusset plate is appropriate to any metal tubing, but would be confined to the butt of a butted downtube.

As used here on this cheap production frame with straight-gage aluminum, it's considered valuable reinforcement normally for bikes used off road (where overloading scenarios are more common):

[fbhidy]

There is a Panasonic bicycle owners group on Facebook with some photos of newer frames:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pana...les/?ref=share

I happen to own a 1988 DX6000 in a 56 if anyone is interested :-)


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