For Sale: Panasonic Aero clearcoated rat

All Japanese Panasonic frame with aero downtube/seattube/seatstays/chainstays from Tange tubing and high quality Shimano EF dropouts. Serial number defines the frame to march '82. Date stamps on the dropouts refer to '81.

Frame has been blasted and clearcoated and would make an awesome rat build. All the signs of rust that you can see are under the shiny fresh clearcoat, which is in great condition! Frame hasn't been built up since treatment so threads might need chasing. No dings, dents or other defects. Like it or not but I love the signs of rust and the raw look of the brazed parts. A pity that it's too small for me, otherwise i would ride the shit out of it myself.

Technical information:

• seattube 54 ctc, toptube 56 ctc
  
• Tange aero tubing
  
• 100-126mm spacing on forks
  
• british threaded bottom bracket shell, 68mm
  
• seatpost size 26,8mm (90% sure, don't have one to test fit)
  
• frame weight +/- 3090g
  
  

A lot of pictures can be found here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/94691882@N03/sets/72157643835528653/

Yours for £105, include shipping to UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands. Other countries: pm!

Looking at the other photos, are you doing anything with the red Flandrias?

Looking at the other photos, are you doing anything with the red Flandrias?

The small one is hanging on my wall, cause it's too small. The big one gets ridden from time to time!

Price drop, yours for £110 now!

pm'd

Still available, price drop to £105 postage included!

Hi,

I'm interested this end, though will have to wait a few more hours to PM you, I'm still in the nursery, new member n all!

Red

Repped

Is this frame still for sale?

Nope, sold!

Just seen this, very interesting to me as my track frame has similar tubing and I've never found anything like it before! Do you know anything more about it? Like was it mostly a japanese thing?

Edit: added questions

Darn, I love the look of these frames and especially this one with the raw finish.

To my understanding, a number of the Japanese bike companies were commissioned by Shimano to build frames to showcase their new at the time Dura-Ace AX Aero groupset.

I bought this frame some time ago and was looking around here for more info about it or similar projects. Funny to find it on here! :)

After lots of researching I discovered it's not an Panasonic AR-6000 frame, these have the downtube braze-ons on the the side of the downtube and not on top.

The Tange aero tubing route led me to a Norta Aero which would be more likely as both seller and me live in Belgium.

Sourcing a Dura Ace (or 600) ax group was too much of a pita so I settled on DA-7400 components. With a custom machined bit to accommodate a pair brifters. I had this build running for a while but decided to break it down, too heavy, (sold all DA7400 parts here) and am now deciding to throw some money on it and go the modern route with a carbon fork and a new 105 5800 group.

Will post something in the projects thread soon!

Please do! I'm a big fan of the tubing on this and would be really keen to see it built up.

Yeah, make a CP thread and also post pics of the previous iteration with DA7400 :). Looking forward to it!

In my opinion, the frame has been produced by Panasonic (hence their serial number in the BB) and was branded as Norta, Jan Jansen, ... Am I wrong?