The Bridgestone Super 7 was the name under which the 50 cc Bridgestone Champion, in its Champion-III form of 1962, was sold in the United States from 1963 through the importer Rockford Motors. The Champion was Bridgestone's first real motorcycle, introduced in 1958 with a pressed steel frame and a shrouded, fan-cooled two-stroke engine driving a three speed gearbox. The Super 7 could be had with electric starting, unusual on so small a machine, and a step-through sister model called the Homer was sold beside it. A 1964 example in the National Motorcycle Museum is described as an air-cooled rotary-valve two-stroke single of 50 cc with a four speed rotary shift gearbox, a pressed steel backbone frame, drum brakes and a weight of 245 pounds. It was one of the machines that introduced American buyers to Bridgestone.
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Bridgestone motorcycles were a division of the Bridgestone Tire Co. of Kyōbashi, Tokyo, Japan that produced mopeds and motorcycles from 1952 to 1970.
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Bridgestone motorcycles were a division of the Bridgestone Tire Co. of Kyōbashi, Tokyo, Japan that produced mopeds and motorcycles from 1952 to 1970.
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the BS7, a moped based on the Champion 2-stroke
2. Bridgestone (motorcycle) (Wikipedia)
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The model was updated in 1962 and designated the Champion-III.
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Bridgestone pulled out of motorcycle manufacturing in 1970.
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The first "real" Bridgestone was introduced in 1958; the 50 cc Champion. The model had a pressed steel frame, a shrouded, fan-cooled two-stroke engine with a 3 speed gearbox.
Lead, division of the tyre company
Bridgestone motorcycles were a division of the Bridgestone Tire Co. of Kyōbashi, Tokyo, Japan that produced mopeds and motorcycles from 1952 to 1970.
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Bridgestone motorcycles were a division of the Bridgestone Tire Co. of Kyōbashi, Tokyo, Japan that produced mopeds and motorcycles from 1952 to 1970.
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Bridgestone motorcycles were a division of the Bridgestone Tire Co. of Kyōbashi, Tokyo, Japan that produced mopeds and motorcycles from 1952 to 1970.
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Bridgestone motorcycles were a division of the Bridgestone Tire Co. of Kyōbashi, Tokyo, Japan that produced mopeds and motorcycles from 1952 to 1970.
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