A kid down the street from me had a takara bitd. I remember the bike costing $150 from a schwinn dealer & it had the "heavy duty" wheels on it that look like they used motorcycle spokes but that's all I know about them.... anyone care to school me?

I know they were low end bikes (mongoose rip off mainly) Pics? Ads? I just bought one and I'm looking for info / decals / etc. Thanks.

[ September 04, 2006, 05:53 PM: Message edited by: Btpd22 ]

They seem to be pretty popular back in Michigan. I had a couple bitd too (I'm from Fenton, originally). And now when I wanted another one, I bought one from a VBMX'r in Michigan. I decided not to "restore" this one, but rather build it up "Rat". More representative of what I had back then. Mis-matched parts, all used, like I would have gotten in trade or at ACE hardware. It is fun to ride.



Doug

[ September 04, 2006, 06:23 PM: Message edited by: wagonguy ]

Doug,
Does it have a head badge on it? Do you have a pic? I know what you mean, there were quite a few in MI

There were different "levels" for the Takara brand bikes ranging from a mild steel frame set to a chromo full race version. I had one back in the day and it came with Tange TRX forks from the factory and the wheelset was built with 7b's.

I only remember seeing probably the base model bike with the HD wheelsets. I didn't know they had different models. Thanks for the info. Does anybody remember seeing any ads for them?

Here is the headbadge:



Doug

I have a takara pit bike of all things. it's buried deep, i can't get to it

Thanks for the pic Doug! I remember it now after seeing it again.

Those were extremely popular here in CT. My buddy had one, came with Tuff 1's from the factory.

Way BITD when I got my first BMX---about '85---my LBS had them. I remember a chrome one that looked like it had good stuff on it, probably one of the chrome moly jobs.
That bronze colored on DOES resemble an old 'Goose!