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This is a Bridgestone. Some of them are known as 'Kabuki' but they're neat bikes, technologically.
Alloy lugs on stainless steel tubes (weird, right?). This was their Submariner model.
In the '70s, weirdly, dept. store bikes innovated by adding disc brakes. They were absolutely a boat anchor on top of the already-hefty weight of a low-end bike.
This one in particular grabbed my eye because it came with ALL the goodies of the day- must have been a special model, as it has a braze-on mounting point for a dynamo, which itself has a debris shield. Never seen those fenders on anything else, either, and the racks are cool and have front mount points on the fork.
SunTour power-ratcheting shifting, and what looks like a rolls saddle, and a spoke-breaker lock.
All in all, the bike's definitely weird, and even just a Submariner on its own is kind of technologically just about as 'oddball' as a Raleigh Technium.
