| verktyg |
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Greetings,
You have an early 70s Gitane Route de France model bike. I don't think that this model was imported into the US.
Here's the fork logo on a late 60s Route de France.
They were amateur racing bikes with frames similar to the Gran Sport models but with alloy rims for tubular tires and maybe some other aluminum alloy components. It looks like it may have been a step below the Interclub model
1970 French Catalog
http://www.gitaneusa.com/images/catalog/1960_pg2.jpg
It came with drop bars, probably alloy but someone switched them to upright bars.
Both of the chainrings on the Sugino Maxi crankset on your bike are removable which dates the cranks to 1974 or later. The 1972-73 Maxi I cranks had the large chainring permanently attached to the crank arm.
Sugino Maxi I
It may have originally had steel cottered cranks and someone replaced them with the later model Sugino cotterless cranks.
Cleaned up it should look and ride nice. |
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