Bill B’s 1977 Fuji Gran Tourer

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Welcome first-time submitter, Bill B. This is his ’77ish Fuji Gran Tourer.

Make: Fuji
Model Gran Tourer
Year Around 1977
Place Of Purchace: I purchaced this bike new at Erlanger Cyclery Cincinnati(Finneytown) loaction. Erlanger Cyclery is not longer in business. Not sure when they sold or went out of business. The store location where the bike shop once was is now Maverick Comic Books & Baseball Cards Store.

I used to ride this bike to high school. (graduated in 1979) I used to bungee cord my books to the luggage rack that is still attached to the bike. I guess today they would strap their laptop to the luggage rack. At my high school they had what was called senior priveliges that allowed you to leave school grounds for lunch. I would jump on the Fuji and race home for lunch and then back to school. The bike is all original with the exception of the front wheel which was stolen in the summer of 1979 while the bike was locked out back at the Wendys that I worked at. I still have and use the same bike lock cable (from around 1973) that is on the luggage rack in the backyard photos of the bike. The Honda Element that I have with the Fuji in it makes a nice transport vehicle for the bike and our Three dogs. Not bike related, but that particular Element is a bit of a rarity also, because it is a hard to find combination of AWD and a 5 Speed stick shift. It seems like most of the Fuji Gran Tourers around that time were 12 speeds. Not sure why this one was a Ten Speed.

Bill B
West Chester Ohio

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  • BeaterRezQ

    Bill B.
    Love your old Fuji–in the seldom seen and not so popular yellow. (why, I don’t know….I love yellow!) Old yellow Schwinn’s I have seen many, but for some strange reason I rarely come across yellow bikes of any other make. Maybe, it’s just me.
    A nice bike with a lot of sentimental value…priceless.
    BRQ

  • Ryan Surface

    Bill Lovely Fuji, I really enjoy seeing well used, well maintained and well loved old ten speeds, your looks like it has many more years of service left.

  • Docsprocket

    AH YES 1977 IN SUN FLOWER YELLOW.
    I HAVE A FETISH FOR THE OLD FUJIS AS WELL AS THE NISHIKI’S
    & ANY TOURING BIKE OF THAT ERA. THEY WERE SIMPLE HIGHLY FUNCTIONAL & DESIRABLE. GRADUATED IN 78 & SPENT THE HOLE SUMMER RIDING BACK & FORTH TO THE LOCAL SWIMMING HOLE , CALLED FIRST FALLS. 2-1/2 MILES FROM HOME IT’S LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY. ATTACHED YOU WILL FIND A FUJI CATALOG PAGE OF YOUR TIME MACHINE THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES

  • General Kanji Ishiwara

    Bill, I have a silver one (12 speed), I thought mine was an 80s bike but when I see yours, everything looks the same, and I noticed the 80s one’s have the gears on bottom tube unlike ours–neck/stem area. I got mine for free and it looked like it rolled off the showroom floor, I was born in 73 and thought I would never appreciate bikes from that era until I started using them,—here in Brooklyn over the years I have received MANY bikes like this–70s/80s–schwinns, Fujis, raleighs–I love em but a sad testament –all the bikes I get are usually a result of a neighborhood person passing away and other family members giving me the bike, all the young people in the 70s are now old and dying, another world gone