Kommer nog att bli en fin fixie. Vita hojar är ju snyggt. Ang hjul så finns schyssta och billiga fixednav inne på veloform.se (och något mindre billiga trackstyren etc som väcker ha-begär).
Slänger in ett utdrag från en diskussion mellan rob och T-mar från bikeforums.net där de avhandlar just modellen 1200. Verkar vara en av deras högsta modeller och dessutom lite ovanlig. Att hoja runt på en James Bond i tux kan ju inte vara fel.
"T-Mar,
Since you are back I was wondering if you knew anything about the Miyata twelve hundred. I've been riding around on it for a couple of months and I must admit that I now have a fetish for Miyatas. I've been able to find out exactly squat about this model though other than two or three other rider's opinions about them.
It still has the original Sante group, which I would like to know more about as well.
Thanks for any help.
Rob
The 1200 appeared twice in Miyata's line-up, first in 1982 and then after a long absence it re-appeared in 1988, for a single year. You have the latter. It was positioned just above the 912 and below the Team Miyata. It is very close to Team frame, but not quite the same. While it is full CrMo and uses the excellent Spline Triple Butted main tubes and spline fork blades, it lacks the spline chainstays, investment cast head lugs and Shimano forged dropouts of the Team. The bottom bracket is also slightly lower, but otherwise the geometry matches the Team. Still very good, but I guess they had to downgrade ithe frame somehow from the Team. The Sante group is excellent though not quite up to the standards of Dura-Ace in the long run.
I've never ridden a 1200 but the Team of the era was excellent and earlier Pro was also very good, so there's no reason to believe this isn't a very fine competition model also. The Pro had disappeared from Miyata's lineup the previous year, so I like to think of the 1200 as the black-tie version of the Pro. The Pro was performance oriented and the appearance, while good, was functional in the traditional sense. The 1200 added high fashion, though the look did not appeal to everyone. It's pretty close to the cycling equivalent of James Bond in a tux."
/Claes
