| verktyg |
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| Joined: 14 Jan 2007 |
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| Location: SF Bay Area |
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Jim,
The seller is asking a fair price for the bike. But... 2 things about it: first, it may be an optical illusion but the forks look a little too straight to me, and second, it's had most of the components changed out.
In the first situation, I would question the seller as to whether the bike was ever crashed and straightened. In the second, the bike originally came with decent components, why were they changed?
http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/bik/1360359804.html
If it were all original and located closer to me and... I hadn't taken my vow of No More Bikes (at least until I get rid of a few), I wouldn't mind adding a Criterium to my collection.
Last year on eBay a bare Criterium frame that I was bidding on sold for way too much . It's now probably a gelding with 12" fixie bars! 
There is another interesting Gitane on CL:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/bik/1367662599.html
Seller says that it's a 47cm mid 60's Super Corsa.
I suspect that it's a 50cm (19 1/2" nominal) size frame when measured Center to Top the way Gitane did it in those days. I also question if it's a Super Corsa and not another top of the line Gitane model.
I'd guess that the Super Corsa model was introduced ~1968 when Gitane switched to Mylar foil decals.
Chas. |
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