Fuji Special Road Racer...bought for the Belt saddle...

[juvela]

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Yes, I had noticed the Florida provenance.

BTW - you may wish to add it to the forum's "bike shop sticker thread" -

https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/bicycle-shop-stickers.127044/

The S10S model was the one Fuji shoppers seemed to opt for back in the early 1970's.

Somewhat analogous to the Peugeot buyers who all seemed to select the U08.

She will clean up very nicely for you Don Federico and is most fortunate to have come to your expert hand!

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[HARPO]

Looks like it's a 1974 model (though the rear wheel shield is solid instead of slotted as shown).
It's still wearing its dried out cloth tape, which needs replacing anyway, and I might even have some. If not, I have regular yellow handlebar tape I'll use.

BTW...the Head Badge is still covered by the original plastic from when the bike was new. It's only starting to peel off now.

 

[juvela]

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For BELT saddle fans there was just one posted for private sale over at BF. At USD40 it is not exactly "garage sale priced"...but then it is not ebay priced either.

Happily, it is a marrone rather than a nera.

(tariffa does include drayature)

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[49autocycledeluxe]

I found cloth tape is hard to get, at least in my area. only one shop had it.

 

[HARPO]

SUGINO crank arm is stamped FUJI. Cool!

The cloth tape looks like Boris Karloff wore it in one of his Mummy movies...which will be a real pain in the butt to remove. Looks like it also has some old dried out paper tape over it.

The brake lever hoods. If I stare sternly enough at them, they will perish into dust. These cannot be saved.

 

[juvela]

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WOW, now that's a first.

Have never before seen a drop bar wrapped with paper. :eek:

Wonder if it may be the crepe paper rolls employed for party decorations...

Was going to write that if the cloth tape original it is probably Cateye brand then noticed that the catalogue image appears to show the bicycle with plastic handlebar wrap.

Read a forum post last year from a cyclist who mixed up a batch of goop to "mend" some crumbling brake lever hoods. What a calamity they created! Something of a cross between leprosy and psoriasis...

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[mongeese]

Great bike- one of my white whales is a drillium Fuji Racer. You done did good here.

 

[49autocycledeluxe]

nice brake hoods! I have a Schwinn that is a few years newer and my hoods looked good, I was going to turn them back on themselves and weave the new bar tape under them and found they no longer bend. they still look good, you just can't touch them.

 

[HARPO]

nice brake hoods! I have a Schwinn that is a few years newer and my hoods looked good, I was going to turn them back on themselves and weave the new bar tape under them and found they no longer bend. they still look good, you just can't touch them.

I touched the one corner and it fell off in three pieces...nothing I didn't expect.

 

[juvela]

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Question -

in post nr. 1 the third image is a closeup of the bottom bracket's drive side. it appears there may be a spacer behind the fixed cup. am curious if the bicycle has one of those odd bottom brackets with a notched lockwasher encountered on some early seventies nippon produce.

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Two small differences between your example and the machine in the MCMLXXIV catalogue image are the pump pegs and the shift lever covers. The catalogue two-wheeler has braze-on pegs on the downtube and is shown coming with a frame pump. Your S10S has plastic pump pegs on the seat tube. IIRC these are made by Primus.

Catalogue machine wears white shift lever covers and your machine black. My "aesthetic" thinks the white goes better due to the white arrestor lever booties present.

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