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Everything Ebykr holds on Bridgestone: three articles, a Timeline of 16 dated events from 1925 to 2018 and four documents in the archive.
The most read history of Bridgestone on Ebykr.
Bridgestone bicycles in the US, from the Grant Petersen years to the RB-1, RB-T, MB-1 and XO-1, with 1994 catalog pages and a rider’s view of the RB-T.
Grouped by format, the most read first.
Bridgestone Japan's Eurasia system of 1976: randonneur and cyclosportif bicycles with more than 90 matching accessories that never reached the US.
A timeline of Bridgestone bicycles from Shōjirō Ishibashi's tabi of 1925 through the Grant Petersen years to the 1994 US closure and the BOB community.
Where Bridgestone is named outside its own pages: five articles.
The articles that name Bridgestone most often first.
…Rivendell, and classic 1980s designs through the dwindling but revered remnants of Bridgestone's bicycle production during his stewardship there in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Defining the Bicycle · A quote…
…companies are named after their founder or first builder: Alex Singer, René Herse, Bridgestone (after Mr. Ishibashi, "Stone Bridge" in Japanese), Schwinn and of course the modern boutique builders such as Gilles…
…Le Tour, a Japanese-built low-cost sport tourer, and developed supply relationships with Bridgestone and Panasonic. The Panasonic-built World Traveler and butted-Tange World Voyager offered much of what a Paramount…
…low-cost sport tourer, and the company developed serious relationships with Bridgestone and with Panasonic. Schwinn was slow to give those bicycles a place in its consumer catalogs, although by 1976 the…
…to fancy pull wagons. Something for everyone, as they say. (I am looking at you, Bridgestone Eurasia!) The cover of the 1896 Pierce Cycles catalog, from the firm’s first years in the bicycle trade. Time would…
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