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| Gtane |
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Here's an aluminium frame advertised as a 1988 with Vitus tubing. It doesn't seem to be listed in the '88 catalogues and the rear dropouts are vertical.
http://tinyurl.com/yfvwvpx
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:02 am |
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it's a vitus duralinox 979 frame with gitane stickers...
strange but peugeot had made the same in the 80' and gitane too in the 70' with alan frame... |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:22 am |
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poufthecascadeur,
Good thoughts on the 979 there and a nice looking frame. So possibly quite unusual?
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 2:27 pm |
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| The decals are incorrectly applied, which is interesting. No way that was ever used by any pro team. |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 9:13 am |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:03 pm |
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| Peter S. Horn |
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I am wondering if this was actually an original Gitane, or a redo of some sort. Systeme U (accent missing, this service) certainly never raced this model. The 1987 U.S. Tour de France was a Vitus 979 model. Checking the U.S. catalogue for 1987, we note that this model was silver aluminum in color, with orange trim and a Speidel 6600 group, etc. To my mind, this was a really nice velo, but it was never raced (to the best of my knowledge) by any pro-team. Other versions did, though! The Belgian Histor-Sigma (in 1989-1990) raced on Gitane-Vitus Carbone and steel GTI frames. If I remember correctly, Histor team stalwart Herman Frison won at Ghent, in 1990, on one or another of these velos. That leads to another personal theory on "Gitane team velos (or variations of same) available to enthusiasts"; probably too lengthy for this post.
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