Not sure how I got onto these recently but the more I look into them the more rare they seem to be. Very artful detail in the lugs and a very unique groove along the top tube to aero cable routing without going internal. How many of you remember the bikes and who knows more about them? Anyone?
I still own my Zunow that I raced on in Japan in 1985. For its time, it was state of the art.
I am not sure on this, but had heard that the “Centurian” bike that Dave Scott rode to several victories at Ironman Hawaii was in fact a Zunow.
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I had one in 1989 or 1990. It was pink (a lot of things were back then) with this smoke effect they did. I think it had the lowest BB of any bike I’ve ever owned. I clipped my pedal so many times pedaling through corners, I finally sold it. The guy I sold it to had it painted white. He still has it somewhere.
I had one back in the late 80’s/early 90’s. I liked the bike. A lot of the Pros were riding them at the time - Rob Mackel, Puntos (sp?) Twins…Mine was neon yellow and pink. I haven’t seen one in years.
have any pictures of your bike tetsuoni? The other thing I remember was the unique biplane shaped rear brake bridge…looked like wings. Guess that’s why they called that version the Hummingbird. A shame they don’t still make them that way. Thanks for the link from the other poster…they still have some cool stuff.
If I am not mistaken the Puntous twins had them in 1985 or 86.
that’d be about right…guess I gotta break out the old issues od Triathlete and do some history (yeah mine go back to 85)
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Those were some of the maximum “dig me” 80’s style steel frames. There were several kerin frame mfg. from Japan that did spectacular work. Zunow had the flashiest pain of those frames. They did have a lower bb that made them good tri bikes for the time. During that period there were some drop dead beautiful steel rigs from Japan, USA, Europe and OZ. It was hard to say which was better or worse, cause they were all good frames. I do think the 753 frames of the early 80’s were the first super tubing bikes. But boy were there a bunch of beauties to choose from. G
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