Now available online in complete form for the first time! Special thanks to Mr. Norman Halperin (Ex Panasonic USA National Sales Manager) for the loan of his catalog for scanning. Clicking on any frame within the […]

Shortly before pulling out of North America in 1990, Panasonic launched an all new custom-to-order program which offered cyclists custom sizing and paint options. The 1988 Panasonic P.I.C.S. catalog, sizing info, […]

I’m certainly not a walking encyclopedia when it comes to vintage Panasonic bicycles. While I do have some recollection of many models in the 80′s, I do have to turn to others to help me fill in the blanks from […]

April 25, 2012

Our 1987 MC-6500 mountain bike has been added to the online gallery. You can check it out with a classic Sea Green to Classic White fade right here.

February 23, 2012

Our 1986 Team Japan […]

One of Panasonic’s best Mountain Cat series bikes for 1988, the MC-7500 featured Tange Prestige MTB tubing and the Shimano Deore XT part group. It was a cosmetic cousin to the ’88 DX-5000 road bike sharing the […]

Complete series of 1989 Panasonic Bicycles catalogs featuring DX series, CS series, MC series and more. Clicking on any frame within the slide show will take you to a larger version of the page.

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Special thanks to Jeffrey Miller for providing us with his catalog for scanning. Clicking on any frame within the slide show will take you to a larger version of that page/image.

The 1986 Team Japan featured the SunTour Superbe Pro component group and was the third model from the top in the Panasonic line up that year.  The Team Japan was also only available in 1986… it was renamed the […]

1987 Panasonic DX-2000.

One step above the base DX-1000 model, the DX-2000 offered slightly better components. Selling for around $330 when new, it fell firmly into the decent rider at a decent price category.  […]

This ’88 MC-5500 mountain bike is available for purchase. See our classifieds area for details.

1988 Panasonic MC-5500 Specifications

List Price:N/A
Frame Sizes:16″, 18″, 20″, 22″
Frame:Tange Cr-Mo […]

One of the Panasonics I always liked were the old AR-6000 Aero models.  They came about at a time when Aero was a bit of a craze in the cycling world and were fitted with the unique Dura Ace AX part group.

This […]

OK, so this isn’t really a project but it was a bit of a missing link. The Team America was in need of a proper NOS Dura Ace chain and thanks to the wonders of ebay, the missing link has been found. Yeah, I […]

Living here in the U.S. I always wished Panasonic would have continued to be sold here after the 1989 model year. The primary desire for this was that I had become aware of the Panasonic PR-6000 model in the […]