Talk:Nishiki (bicycle company)

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• Old School BMX magazines - many read like adverts but perhaps some facts can be gleaned. Bruxton (talk) 17:11, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Throughout the US bike boom of the 1970s and into the 1980s, Nishiki and West Coast Cycle competed with domestic companies including Schwinn, Huffy, and Murray; European companies including Raleigh, Peugeot and Motobecane—as well as other nascent Japanese brands including Miyata, Fuji, Bridgestone, Panasonic, Univega, Lotus and Centurion—itself a line of Japanese-manufactured bicycles that were specified, distributed and marketed by Western States Imports (WSI), a US company similar to West Coast Cycle.

That's an awfully big chunk of the lead devoting to surveying the historical landscape. — MaxEnt 23:03, 4 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]