In 1990 I bought a Panasonic road bike, aluminum frame with Shimano 105 componentsA rear stay broke in 1995 but I had a lifetime warranty on the frameI contacted my shop who told me that Panasonic was no longer doing business in the US but Fuji was handling warranty issuesI contacted Fuji who gave me the address in Japan where I needed to send the frame for repairThe Panasonic factory was in KyotoEarthquake in 1990 hit Kyoto hardNo contact regarding my frame for 8 monthsOne day, a cardboard carton arrives with a new Panasonic frameI take it to my shop to put the old components back onThey say quot;Holy S.quot; this is a Panasonic factory racing team frame made of Columbus tubing; worth (at the time) thousandsI had the bike rebuilt and still have it todayWould love to know more about the factory frameAm considering restoring the bike.
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Panasonic Panasonic, the bicycle brand of the mighty Matsushita conglomerate, made very nice bicycles, beautifully built, but never very successful in the U.Smarket In the late '80s, Panasonic had a plan to supply semi-custom bikes, using just-in-time production methodsThe program was called P.I.C.S(Panasonic Individualized Custom System)The frames were stock, but were painted to order (with the customer's name optionally painted on the top tube) and with a custom-length handlebar stem Panasonic also made bicycles under other names under contract, most notably, for Schwinn.the Schwinn Le Tour was the first non-Chicago SchwinnFrom a posting by Yellow Jersey's Andrew Muzi: Japanese-built Panasonic/National/Matsushita frames are of excellent quality at each price rangeYou can distinguish them from outsourced bikes by the serial number locationOsaka-built frames are serial numbered on the lower headlugThe second digit is the year, e.g., T5M78563 would be a 1985 frame
