[kingkahuna]

anyone got some pictures of this bike?
I had it bad for one of these from the LBS back in 88,89,90....never seen another one since...
loved the blue/white fade paint...

 

[Fillet-brazed]

Ive got an 88. I'll try and get a pic in the next couple days. Theyre nice bikes.

 

[Elevation12000]

Not mine, but I found this one on the net. Nice example! Is this the bike you were looking for?

http://www.uzzah.com/miyata/index.html

 

[kingkahuna]

yep. that would do nicely...I think I liked the 89 and 90 model decals a bit more...

 

[mtnwing]

anyone got some pictures of this bike?
I had it bad for one of these from the LBS back in 88,89,90....never seen another one since...
loved the blue/white fade paint...

I believe this picture might be Greg Herbold's 1990 Worlds DH Championship winning bike.

https://www.mtb-classic.de/mtb/sonstige/miyata90.jpg

-mtnwing

 

[Rumpfy]

I believe this picture might be Greg Herbold's 1990 Worlds DH Championship winning bike.

https://www.mtb-classic.de/mtb/sonstige/miyata90.jpg

-mtnwing

Yeah...that's the bike I want...
On of my MBAction mags has ride reviews of all the 1990 World Champ bikes...I wanna say that picture is the same in the magazine.

Speaking of Miyatas...have we all seen the 3 carbon and one titanium Miyatas up on eBay at the moment?...hmmm Tucker?

 

[mtnwing]

Alotta Miyata's . . .

Yeah...that's the bike I want...
On of my MBAction mags has ride reviews of all the 1990 World Champ bikes...I wanna say that picture is the same in the magazine.

Speaking of Miyatas...have we all seen the 3 carbon and one titanium Miyatas up on eBay at the moment?...hmmm Tucker?

I've got two carbon one's and two steel miyata's sitting here already . . .
Planning to sell one of the steel one's. If anyone is interested in a 21" NOS ridgerunner frame email me.

-mtnwing

PS - who's Tucker?

 

[Michael Staab]

Hi,

this is what the Ridge Runner looked like in Europe. This is me on my 1989 Koga Miyata Ridge Runner:

And the clothes are, errr 80's style .

Greetings,

Michael
wish I would own that bike again.

 

[Elevation12000]

This is my ValleyRunner of that era. Recently gave it a second live (picture is from before updates). I think it is from ´89, but I am not sure. Could somebody tell me? It has many Exage Mountain components and the frame is triplebutted Hardlite. Ofcourse no sloping tt, long chainstays, Ubrake behind bracket and many more funny eightees details. By the way: It is a really excellent performing bike!

Melvin

 

[tl1]

This is my ValleyRunner of that era. Recently gave it a second live (picture is from before updates). I think it is from ?89, but I am not sure. Could somebody tell me? It has many Exage Mountain components and the frame is triplebutted Hardlite. Ofcourse no sloping tt, long chainstays, Ubrake behind bracket and many more funny eightees details. By the way: It is a really excellent performing bike!

Melvin

I just bought a '91 Pathrunner that looks very much like that with identical appearing teal frame paint and matching stem paint.It looks very cool as does yours. I lucked into the original owner that was going to toss it out and offered next to nothing, which to my delight was accepted! It's 99% original and in good shape. The Pathrunner is a slightly lower end bike but it too is an excellent performer and I really enjoy riding it.

I also own a Forerunner, Elevation 5000 and Alfrex of early to mid nineties vintage but all were bought as NOS frames on eBay within the last few years.

 

[Elevation12000]

Unfortunately I don´t know the PathRunner. Actually mine isn´t a Miyata, but a Koga Miyata. I am from Europe and Miyata´s always were a bit exotic to me. Of course I knew the ones of H-Ball. Awesome ! More multicolered as a cheap christmastree and they always looked quite heavy. A quite dramatic appearance, I guess that is what I want to say.

You own a nice stable. What exactly is meant by Elevation 5,000. Alloy front and rear triangle bonded and bolted? In Europe those were known as TerraRunnerAlloy and Explosion. Besides the ValleyRunner I own:

´91 KM TrailRunner - welded alloy 7000, BigChamp fork, really heavy duty
´92 GentsRacerCarbolite - roadbike, fronttriangle with 4 carbon tubes, alloy rear, bonded
´93 ValleyRunnerAlloy - alloy front, hardlite rear, bonded and bolted construction
´93 TrailRunnerCarbolite(on eBay now) - carbon front, polished alloy rear, bolted and bonded
´93 SkyRunnerCarbolite - carbon front and rear, bonded and bolted
´95 SkyCarbolite (damaged) - carbon front, titanium(!) rear, bonded and bolted. Initialy Koga intended to market it with a small suspension unit in the rear (like HBall rode). They pictured it in the brochure (see picture below) and I ordered one. They later realized that is wasn´t such a good idea and they cancelled it, so in the more luxurious, glossy brochure which later came it wasn´t pictured with the suspension unit. Neverteless I bought it.
´97 Suvivor - welded hardlite frame, good quality but I am not sure whether it is made by Miyata in Japan

I will take some pictures of my bikes and post them in future. Maybe it also would be nice to start a thread concerning the US Miyata´s and their European Koga Miyata counterparts. Personally I am very interested in all the styles Miyata´s were made.

You bought those NOS frames on eBay. Probably you made a good deal, cause I sometimes see them go on eBay.com for very interesting prices. Those old (Koga) Miyata´s were quite valuable back then. In Europe they were only sold as complete bike, but once I crashed my ´95 SkyCarbolite and the insurancecompany refunded me $1000 dollars frame only!

initial ´95 Koga SkyCarbolite

 

[tl1]

Speaking of Miyatas...have we all seen the 3 carbon and one titanium Miyatas up on eBay at the moment?...hmmm Tucker?

Yup. I luckily got one of those beautiful blue Trail Runner Carbolites. Luckily I say both because it sold for a great buyer's price and at the last minute I accidentally put in a $6700 bid somehow in place of a $67 bid! Good thing bidding didn't get too high. ;^) I saw your bids too, btw (on a different one).

 

[Rumpfy]

Yup. I luckily got one of those beautiful blue Trail Runner Carbolites. Luckily I say both because it sold for a great buyer's price and at the last minute I accidentally put in a $6700 bid somehow in place of a $67 bid! Good thing bidding didn't get too high. ;^) I saw your bids too, btw (on a different one).

Yeah...I was bummed I didn't end up with any of the three...
I thought I might have been able to sneek in with a $60 bid...lost all the above.
I've got plenty of projects, but the carbon would have been cool.

I'd still like to find the right Ridge Runner Team in my size (like the one's pictured above).
Time, patience, and money...all you need for this hobby!

Post pics of that Carbolite when you're done with it so I know what could have been!

 

[Elevation12000]

The first is my 20.5¨ TrailRunnerCarbolite, the second a brochure pic of the bike featuring it´s original equipment.

 

[Elevation12000]

Somewhat bigger:

 

[tl1]

Thanks for all the great Miyata pictures and info. Elevation12000! I'll post pics of my teal PathRunner when I get some taken.

I'm not much for restorations. I like to ride the heck out of all my bikes and thus like v-brakes and modern derailleurs, shifters etc. a little better than vintage stuff. I think I'm going to mostly transfer the parts from my Miyata Alfrex (minus the blue Schwalbe tires of course) to the Carbolite. THAT much blue on the Carbolite would be way over the top. ;^)

 

[Elevation12000]

Go ride the heck out all of your bikes - that´s were they are intended for !

I know that Alfrex. I bought one from a guy in Salt Lake City. Unfortunately it never arrived

The funny thing about the recent auction is that the Alfrex closed higher then I suppose two of the three TrailRunners ! Probably cause most people in the states are not familiar with the Koga brandname. If you´d asked me; the paint scheme definately couldn´t be the reason. Kidding, let´s say it´s a worthy representative of the early nineties era.

Melvin

 

[banks]

I have 2: One is all stock and the other is my old race bike with full 6 speed XT, Biopace, Ubrake, RM-20, Specialized blue toe clips, Fisher Fattrax/Specialized Ground Control S rubber, white perforated Turbo saddle and ODI Attack grips.

Scoty

 

[Fillet-brazed]

I have 2: One is all stock and the other is my old race bike with full 6 speed XT, Biopace, Ubrake, RM-20, Specialized blue toe clips, Fisher Fattrax/Specialized Ground Control S rubber, white perforated Turbo saddle and ODI Attack grips.

Scoty

Cool, can we see some pics. I love pictures of the old race bikes with the personalized setups...

 

[tl1]

This is my ValleyRunner of that era. Recently gave it a second live (picture is from before updates). I think it is from �89, but I am not sure. Could somebody tell me? It has many Exage Mountain components and the frame is triplebutted Hardlite. Ofcourse no sloping tt, long chainstays, Ubrake behind bracket and many more funny eightees details. By the way: It is a really excellent performing bike!

Melvin

Here is my 1991 Path Runner. I finally took some pictures of it today in the middle of a great 2 hour ride on the thing. It came out looking more green than blue on the Teal paint somehow. In real life it looks more like yours does.

I really like this bike because it just rides and pedals great. The Biopace cranks must be the later generation variety because one doesn't really notice they're out of round as they don't feel odd. No problem spinning them fast at all and in fact I forgot they were BP until I stopped to take pictures. 6 speed Exage components as your has but you can see my frame isn't really as nice. Just plain vanilla doublebutted chromoly here without any fancy finishing.