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The Catalog of Reminiscence

The Invitation for Cycling by Mr.Gami

Part 27: Yoshigai Kikai Kinzoku in 1994




Here is the catalog of Yoshigai in 1994. The brand name Dia-compe must be familiar more than Yoshigai. The main parts in the catalog became MTB model because of the boom. Disk brake and Ahead set were also introduced; the lineup became close to present one.




This is the front cover and the back cover. "Component system (group set) chart" was printed on the back cover.





Here are brakes and levers for MTB. The name "MTB" was not popular yet in those days. Therefore the catalog described it as ATB (all terrain bike).
V brake did not appeared yet. Only cantilever brakes were introduced in the catalog.
I have model 987 and model 986 in my stock for my touring bicycle. As for the shape, those were limit that I can accept, as a vintage bicycle fun.





These are brakes and levers for road-racing model.
BRS500 was supplied for Mavic racing group-set as OEM products. A product which was based on BRS200 and lightened by titanium parts has been sold by Cane Creek even now. Side-pull model 500 and centre-pull model 750 were long life products which were produced since Yoshigai made business tie up with Weinmann.





Here were brake levers for flat handlebar.
There wasn't the model 144 in this catalog, though it was still introduced in the 1990 catalog. Model 204 is sold even now. Model 188 was a so-called "opposite lever" which was attached to the end of handlebar. Safety lever is nostalgic. It seems to be exclusive part for 204.





Here are the disk brake and the ahead set. Those are popular now along with the suspension fork. I had thought that "Sports bicycle had been equipped with disk brake at last" when it appeared. However, it was already used for a junior sports bicycle in Japan far in the past.





Here are several small parts and tools. Nowadays the outer cable hanger and the straddle cable-bridge became unnecessary parts. It is rather hard to find them.


Nowadays the products of Yoshigai came to occupy only a small part of shelf space in a bicycle shop. However, a number of cyclists must have used Yoshigai brakes.






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