The storefront window of Jitensha Studio on University Ave., in Berkeley, CA. (In 2006, the shop was profiled in the New York Times.) My folks had met him on the school playground, which, as a parent now myself, I realize is the primary way you meet new people as an adult with kids. We had the good fortune to get the bike from Hiroshi Iimura, designer of beautiful Ebisu bicycles, inspiration for Grant Petersen’s designs at Bridgestone and later Rivendell, and proprietor of the elegantly understated Jitensha Studio in Berkeley, CA. Actually it comes with a 90 degree stem, for slightly higher handlebar position.” All the catalog scans come from Sheldon Brown, here. In the cow photo, the bike has a normal road stem. If you don’t race either on the road or the dirt, and you don’t have a good bike yet, and you can only get one, and the hills in your area demand low gears. The text is pure Grant Petersen: “This is our most versitle bike. A page from the 1991 Bridgestone catalog, showing the RB-T Synergy being ridden by the mythical Pineapple Bob, himself.
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