Thomas B’s Fuji Sports 10

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Tomshiba’s Fuji Sports 10.

Included in this email you’ll find a photo of a Fuji Sports 10 ten speed bicycle. I recently bought this at a yard sale. I haven’t figured out the manufactured date yet, but with research will find the answer. I figure that it came from the 1970s. It needed no adjustment, just air in the tires and I took it for a 15 mile Sunday morning ride. It is amazingly smooth and everything works. Whoever owned this bicycle prior to me must have kept it out of the elements. The handlebar engraving really catches my eye. It isn’t perfect, but it will look very nice once I polish it up.

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  • BeaterRezQ

    Thomas B., can’t go wrong with a 70’s Fuji! 15 mile ride with only air in the tires needed—who can complain, an instant “road warrior”. I haven’t been on many yard sale expeditions lately, but for me, that’s where it’s at. I have found my best and most inexpensive acquisitions by stumbling upon them at neighborhood garage/yard sales. Good find!
    BRQ

    • tomshiba

      Thank you BeaterRezQ (BTW, nice handle). This is the second classic ten speed that I’ve found in the last three years. My first was a 1974 Schwinn Super Sport. Still have it. It claims a corner in the living room.

      • BeaterRezQ

        …ahhh yes, a 1974 SSS—and right at home in the living room where it belongs! TY on the handle, B”

  • Keith

    Check your bottom bracket; if I remember correctly, the first two digits of the serial number are the model year.
    Looks great! Mine (http://oldtenspeedgallery.com/owner-submitted/keiths-fuji-sports-10/) is still in pieces. There’s just never enough time.

    • Keith
    • tomshiba

      Thanks for the info. Eventually you’ll find the time because bicycles in pieces will speak to you in your dreams. Either that or you’ll get tired of looking at the pile. Good luck!

    • tomshiba

      Whoohah! It is a 1978 model. I thought that it may have been older. I thought twelve speeds began to dominate about then.

  • Docsprocket

    SWEET SWEET SWEEET I LOVE THE FUJIS I THINK WE ARE LOOKING AT A 1976 MAYBE HERE IS A PAGGE FROM THERE CATALOG

  • Docsprocket

    AFTER A CLOSER LOOK IN THERE ARCHIVES
    1979 OCEAN BLUE

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Scott-Vandeweghe/100001050687076 Scott Vandeweghe

    Nice bike! check http://classicfuji.com/ for more info on your ride. A little time with a buffing wheel and bearing grease and you should be set for another 20 years!

  • Ryan Surface

    Nice Find Thomas, love the blue and the cool Nitto bars. I think engraved bars really class up a bike. I have a late 70s Fuji Royale frame-set sitting in the garage and most of the parts I need sitting there too, hoping to get to it soon. http://classicfuji.com/1979_10_Royale_Page.htm (its silver)