The Bridgestone RB-2 was the second model of the RB road series that Bridgestone sold in the United States under the leadership of Grant Petersen, who ran the company's American bicycle division in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Sheldon Brown's Bridgestone catalogue archive says it had the same geometry as the RB-1, the legendary road bike that combined classic Italian frame design with Japanese workmanship, but with slightly less expensive tubing and considerably less expensive parts. Bridgestone numbered its bicycles backwards, so the RB-2 ranked just below the RB-1, and above the RB-3, which the archive calls a low-end model of little interest.
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Source Bridgestone Bicycles Catalogue Archive (Sheldon Brown)
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Source Bridgestone Bicycles Catalogue Archive (Sheldon Brown)Opening paragraphQuote, Opening paragraph
and a fairly small bicycle company, with its own factory in Japan.
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1. Ebykr: Bridgestone: Beyond the Dream
EbykrRacing record of the road bikesQuote, Racing record of the road bikes
The road bikes - the RB-1 and RB-2 - were raced to great success
Bridgestone Bicycles Catalogue Archive (Sheldon Brown)
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and a fairly small bicycle company, with its own factory in Japan.
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