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Lost in Translation :: The Bridgestone Eurasia

Every now and then, I google "Bridgestone Eurasia" to find out more information about one of my bicycles, as it was never sold in the United States and so I know little about its origin. Today, I came across a Japanese website that contains some pics and info on the bike. However, I don't read Japanese, so I had google do the translation for me. Here is what I got in return....

　[wantatsuchipikunika] similar, the cycle [pi] [tsu] and the store of [inoue] first you slept. [suporuteihu] about of 20 years ago. Bosom tilting, it does.
The leader of the store begins and “rides by his to clean�, that you said, but the store could not make busy, very by his to clean.
So like this while having done, it was moved to the bicycle yard which from ahead the store becomes motor vehicle cassation of the reverse side of the store.
　In university age does touring with the run donor because it is something which, while many times see, longing.
It means that the kind of air where gradually this bicycle call by your does.
　Finally, whether or not there is an air which never, sells mind in the leader, you had heard somewhat price.

　As for problem, yard with pad. Already in the garage folding and one MTB 4. Entirely my ones. As for bicycle of child entrance.
Because the wife inserts the car into this garage, when the bicycle takes the space excessively, “because it becomes difficult to insert the car, it is to be called useless�.
If you mention the proper, the proper.
　Somehow devising the method of inserting the bicycle, already about one becomes unit somehow, the kind of air which. Generally after guaranteeing the space, start of negotiation with the wife. About 3 days spending, thoroughly persuasion. With the favor which spent time, increased with “OK�.
　Going with to the cycle [pi] [tsu], “Eurasia, you buy�, that when you say, the leader so worry “permission and the time of the lady, it is?�
It was to be worried about that it becomes quarrel between husband and wife.

So, my interpretation is that this guy wanted to buy this bike and fix it up, but his wife complained about not enough space in the garage. After haranguing her, she finally agrees to let him buy the bike.

AND...there is more....

　August 12 day and night one, going with to the cycle [pi] [tsu], servicing Eurasia. You dropped the rust of the chain, polished the frame, you did again to attach the mudguard which has come off, the soiling which has been attached to the rubber of the cover of adjustment of the shift wire, service and the brake lever of the brake you removed, locking the bar tape which has started to peel off start running, safety you could.
　Recently, [kachikachi] and being one-touch, those where you can shift gear had become natural, but as for any such a things it has not been attached to this Eurasia. Equal to necessary amount moves the W lever which is attached to the down tube of the frame and adjusts the delay Ra movement.
　Feeling of the time where it was riding in the past run donor returns. Riding comfort there is no with something, whether bosom forcing.
　When the dynamo is pushed to the rim of the rear wheel, light/write illumination. Either the extent pedal which you think does not become heavy, satisfaction. So just a little dark kana?
　Because the talk lip which has been attached to the pedal, we do not like the toast lap you removed.

It seems the above describes his efforts to clean and repair the bicycle and a summary of how it is now working. Or at least, it is what I have gotten from google translation.

It's nice to know at least that someone else is riding a Bridgestone Eurasia!

And, it turns out that B'stone made a whole touring line of bicycles called Eurasia back in the 1970s and 1980s! I found the following sites at TheCityBicycle blog. See here and here and here. These are Bridgestone catalogs from the late 1970s and early 1980s. Nothing on the EAD-500 which is my specific Eurasia model but so many luxurious goodies on this page. I love all the accessories for the touring bicycles. It's purrdy.

p.s., Here is a site with all sorts of pdf scans of old Japanese bicycle catalogs. Click here.

Posted by richlee at September 20, 2007 10:53 AM