Does anyone here know that Miyata used to be a bike company. I was at this one lady’s house, because my bro would probably get a bike soon and she had one she could spare. But this lady was like crazy with bikes she must have have like 15 bikes in her possesion. Any way i saw this old bike mounted on those things that keep it in one place so you can pedal indoors. i call it a bike treadmill. Something was weird about it, but what was it!!! Then it hit me the name of the company on the bike was a uni company MIYATA!!! Did any of you guys know this?
yup, and all the miyata bikes coem in the same gawd awful coulours the unicycles do too.
they still are a bike company, they just dont import them to the US anymore…
Ahhh… I think you’re thinking about Bianchi bicycles that come in that color. Bianchi calls the color ‘celeste’. Although they do make bikes in other colors now. I have a black Bianchi track bike.
Mojoe
The bike I saw was silver (colored). That color is weird but it’s Miyata’s color. My mom was looking trough a uni catalog and looked at a Miyata and was like "eww what a girly color. And i was like “mom that’s like they’re signature!!”
Sometimes there’s no getting to her:D
My first road bike is a Miyata. It was all steel and is older them I am. It was also made for someone like 6 feet tall (I’m 5’6"). In order to stop, I’d have to look for a curb to stand next to or a pole to balance on. The bike is still being road on a near daily basis. I gave it to a friend of mine who shipped it to California and uses it to get from his apartment to class and back. My friend even got a ticket while riding it. It was a ticket for riding the bike across a cross walk. The ticket was for $143. The moral of the story is, never ride you bike across a street when there is a cop around.
Oh, and to answer your question, I did know that Miyata made bikes.
Daniel
Yes, I used to put them together in a bike shop. I didn’t know they weren’t available. I do remember the odd colors. Seemed they had colors for women.
I have 3 Miyata bicycles. The Miyata 912 is an excellent street bike that is black and pearl white. The 2 off-road bikes (Trailblazers) are solid and a lighter color version of the current Miyata green. I purchased those bikes in excess of 15 years ago. They are in excellent condition and very reliable. 
I have a Miyata Triplecross in my garage, from 1989. It’s a “hybrid,” which is basically a “cross” between a slightly lame road bike and a slightly lame mountain bike. What you get is a really good ride-to-work bike. I ride it to work occasionally. It’s faster than the Coker.
Miyata bikes and unicycles were all made in Japan, while much other manufacturing moved to cheaper places, like Taiwan and later China. Then with fluctuations of the yen in relation to other currencies in the early 90s, Japanese-made stuff got a lot more expensive. In 1993 Miyata stopped importing to the USA.
The guys in charge of warranty parts were convinced that they should still bring in the unicycles, so we could continue to get them while their parts warehouse gradually dwindled over the years. Now the unicycle importing has been turned over to Unicycle.com for the U.S.
Miyata saddles are now made in China. The Chinese versions are not yet up to the quality of the older Japanese ones from Ariake. Hopefully future versions will catch up, and possibly improve on the Japanese saddles.
since you decided to make my short answer long, let me add that Miyata just could’nt keep up with the American epidemic known as mountain bikes. in the late 80’s through the earley 90’s they got crushed by Specialized,Giant,Cadex,Nisiki and KHS etc. that combined with Cannondale,Klein,Trek and the american arm of Bridgestone leading the progress, they just layed there idle with the belief that it was was only a passing fad…wrong!
(BONUS POINTS: before the Cannondale T1000 Miyata had the best touring bike ever.)