Bridgestone Cycle is the bicycle maker that grew out of the tyre company Bridgestone, which began making bicycles after the Second World War and formed the Bridgestone Cycle Company in 1949. It sells bicycles under its own name and under the Anchor brand, and at one time also marketed bicycles as Kabuki. In Japan it is known for utility, mountain and, as Anchor, road racing bicycles. Its output included a collaboration with Alex Moulton on the Bridgestone Moulton, the folding Picnica, and a BMX range sold in 1981 and 1982. Its American marketing director Grant Petersen later carried the same philosophy to Rivendell Bicycle Works.
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Source Bridgestone Bicycle Catalogue 1992 (Bridgestone USA)
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Source Bridgestone MB-5 Trailblazer (Bicycling)
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Bridgestone Corporation (株式会社ブリヂストン, Kabushiki gaisha Burijisuton) is a Japanese multinational tire and rubber manufacturing company based in Kyōbashi, Tokyo.
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The Bridgestone Cycle Co Ltd. originated in 1949. It offers bicycles under its own brand and under the Anchor brand.
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Bridgestone Corporation (株式会社ブリヂストン, Kabushiki gaisha Burijisuton) is a Japanese multinational tire and rubber manufacturing company based in Kyōbashi, Tokyo.
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It offers bicycles under its own brand and under the Anchor brand.
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It offers bicycles under its own brand and under the Anchor brand.
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carried in the Bridgestone Cycle USA catalogs from 1985 through 1990
Japanese Bicycles in the U.S. Market (Sheldon Brown)
Has Vehicles: Bridgestone RB-1, Bridgestone, opening paragraph
and a fairly small bicycle company, with its own factory in Japan.
Has Vehicles: Bridgestone RB-T, Bridgestone, opening paragraph
and a fairly small bicycle company, with its own factory in Japan.
Has Vehicles: Bridgestone MB-1, Bridgestone, opening paragraph
and a fairly small bicycle company, with its own factory in Japan.
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Has Vehicles: Bridgestone XO-1, Opening paragraph
and a fairly small bicycle company, with its own factory in Japan.
Has Vehicles: Bridgestone RB-2, Opening paragraph
and a fairly small bicycle company, with its own factory in Japan.
Has Vehicles: Bridgestone MB-0, Mountain Bikes section
Bridgestone was one of the first companies to jump on the mountain bike bandwagon in the 1980s
Has Vehicles: Bridgestone MB-2, Mountain Bikes section
Bridgestone was one of the first companies to jump on the mountain bike bandwagon in the 1980s
Has Vehicles: Bridgestone CB-1, City bikes paragraph, CB series
The CB-series (City Bike) was intended as a bike for the non-enthusiast.
Has Vehicles: Bridgestone XO-5, The XO series, XO-5
The XO-5 was more like a typical "hybrid" with 622 mm (700c) wheels
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DISTRIBUTED BY: BRIDGESTONE CYCLE
Bridgestone MB-5 Trailblazer (Bicycling)
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Distributed by: Bridgestone Cycle, Inc
Hybrids: Bridgestone XO-3 (Forbes)
Has Vehicles: Bridgestone XO-3, Distribution and makeQuote, Has Vehicles: Bridgestone XO-3, Distribution and make
Moir and Padley review Bridgestone's XO-3, an all-terrain bicycle.
Bridgestone Bicycle Catalogue 1992 (Bridgestone USA)
Has Vehicles: Bridgestone MB-4, MB-4 page, PDF page 18
This is the one we recommend to close friends and relatives
Has Vehicles: Bridgestone MB-6, MB-6 page, PDF page 20
Last year the MB-6 was our biggest seller, maybe because it was the only bike in its price range with top-mount shifters.
Has Vehicles: Bridgestone BB-1, BB-1 page, PDF page 41
is our least expensive new model
Has Vehicles: Bridgestone XO-2, PDF page 4, introduction, Moustache Handlebars
the Moustache Handlebars on our xO-i and xO-2
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