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  • Do Panasonic really make bike tyres?
  • richmtb
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    Just bought some new Panaracer tyres. Apparently they are made by Panasonic PolyTechnologies.

    Seems a very odd product for a consumer electronics company to be making

    bigyinn
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    Prob a bit like Mitsubishi who make ANYTHING from cars to electronics.

    TandemJeremy
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    Yamaha – motorcycles and pianos

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    Drac
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    Nothing odd about it, it’s a corporation check out GE, Proctor and Gamble well the list goes on really.

    slowoldgit
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    You’ll be suggesting Shimano make fishing kit next

    Stoner
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    and tennis racquets

    Drac
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    DaveyBoyWonder
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    What the **** is one of the chuckle brothers doing with that bike?

    stumpy01
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    Blimey the rear triangle on that thing looks really long!

    rewski
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    Most of them make components for bombs and missiles too

    richmtb
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    Yamaha – motorcycles and pianos

    Apparently Yamaha use harmonics technology from their “piano” division to help tune the inlet and outlet flows from theire bike engines

    Well I did know Mitsubishi made F-15s, and Subaru (Fuji Heavy Industries) make buildings and ships as well as cars.

    Maybe Pansonic are using tyre technology to make extra grippy button for their TV remotes!

    Gary_M
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    It’s funny that you posted this question. I didn’t know that panaracer was owned by panasonic until I received some panaracer flat away tape in the post yesterday and it said panasonic on the top right hand corner of the box. Nothing odd about it but you would think in 20 years of mountain biking I would have known that by now.

    richmtb
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    Nothing odd about it but you would think in 20 years of mountain biking I would have known that by now.

    Someone will no doubt correctly but I’ve also used Panarace tyres for lots of years and its only recently that I can remember seeing a Panasonic logo on the packaging

    rewski
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    Fox also make lovely biscuits

    Pook
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    And glacier mints

    gonefishin
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    Yamaha – motorcycles and pianos

    Well the company symbol is a trio of tuning forks so it’s not a surpirse that they make musical insturments. They also make my saxophone. Yamaha musical insturments are, or at least were, considered to be pretty good.

    Drac
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    Fox also make lovely biscuits

    And Ladies.

    Diawl
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    My acoustic guitar is a Yamaha. I preferred my RD350LC though.

    Torminalis
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    I commented on having bought Panasonic innertubes a few weeks ago. I wonder if they will work with my TV as well as the camera does.

    MentalMickey
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    Sony.

    MrSmith
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    panasonic make keirin racing frames and road bikes

    Frankers
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    Hitachi make tv’s + power tools + bullet trains…….. and carbide end mills which is what I flog

    Ax3M4n
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    The boring answer is….

    Japanese Companies are Vertically Structured.

    I.e. they try to own the whole supply chain – they own the companies who make the bits and bobs that are assembled to make the products they are actually well known for.

    Cars for example – there will be Toyota Steel Company, Toyota Aluminium Company, Toyota Rubber Company etc. Probably.

    So don’t be surprised.

    sobriety
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    Hitachi make tv’s + power tools + bullet trains…….. and carbide end mills which is what I flog

    And ships, diggers, chemical plant equipment…

    ourkidsam
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    Someone (Podge I think) told me at the weekend that Nokia make Nokian tyres

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