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advice on 'restoration' or 'resto-mod' 
PostForum: Vintage Gitane   Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:43 pm   Subject: advice on 'restoration' or 'resto-mod'
augdog
 
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re: catalogs,

after re-reading your post again, do you mean the likes of Performance bike and Nashbar? how will they help with vintage components?
what am i missing?
 
advice on 'restoration' or 'resto-mod' 
PostForum: Vintage Gitane   Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:39 pm   Subject: advice on 'restoration' or 'resto-mod'
augdog
 
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Gtane,

Thanks! this is the kind of perspective i was hoping for!

i was comming arround to this kind of idea. mix and match components as my mood suits.
the problem i have is a lack of a frame ...
 
advice on 'restoration' or 'resto-mod' 
PostForum: Vintage Gitane   Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 9:16 pm   Subject: advice on 'restoration' or 'resto-mod'
augdog
 
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well the nuovo record stuff is all over the map $ wise, but it's all great looking stuff!

how can i tell the age? it would be akward if i had mis-matched stuff from different eras...or maybe not, t ...
 
advice on 'restoration' or 'resto-mod' 
PostForum: Vintage Gitane   Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 10:44 pm   Subject: advice on 'restoration' or 'resto-mod'
augdog
 
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yuo may remember i was the fellow that saved a 1968 apache standard from the thrift store scrap pile'

http://gitaneusa.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1729

it is still in rough shape, it's been a busy ...
 
newb with a new bike...help! UPDATED W/PICS!!! 
PostForum: Vintage Gitane   Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:39 pm   Subject: newb with a new bike...help! UPDATED W/PICS!!!
augdog
 
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well i read the postings on the link above.
i like all the ideas and the spirit of 'historical respect' very common here.

i'm leaning toward one of the following plans...

update most of the com ...
 
newb with a new bike...help! UPDATED W/PICS!!! 
PostForum: Vintage Gitane   Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 11:01 pm   Subject: newb with a new bike...help! UPDATED W/PICS!!!
augdog
 
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well great! now i'm excited!

well to answer some questions,
im 39, my kids are 6 and 3, no grands for a while.

but, i am a short guy 5'6" or so.
this frame seems to fit me ok, the seat tu ...
 
newb with a new bike...help! UPDATED W/PICS!!! 
PostForum: Vintage Gitane   Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 6:27 pm   Subject: newb with a new bike...help! UPDATED W/PICS!!!
augdog
 
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i was kooking at pictures in the other froum section and i found some pics of a supercorsa (i think that was the model)
and the poster claimed it was from 1971, based on a date code on a derailer.
...
 
newb with a new bike...help! UPDATED W/PICS!!! 
PostForum: Vintage Gitane   Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 10:48 pm   Subject: newb with a new bike...help! UPDATED W/PICS!!!
augdog
 
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update.

just sat in the garage staring and examining my new find.

it was a shade of metalic red but is a nonmetalic red now bad repaint around the stickers in place, cant tell if it had chrome s ...
 
newb with a new bike...help! UPDATED W/PICS!!! 
PostForum: Vintage Gitane   Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 9:13 pm   Subject: newb with a new bike...help! UPDATED W/PICS!!!
augdog
 
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i found this forum group because of a purchase i just made, i hope it was a wise one...

out behind a local thrift shop, next to the scrap metal bin was a bike in need of a good home.

i saw the G ...
 
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