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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:09 am |
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zootsuit |
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Hi
a 70s Gitane has come up for sale in my local area. Unfortunately I dont have any images but the seller assures me it has half chromed rear stays as well as the usual front forks. It has a simplex groupset and sounds like the rear dropouts are stamped rather than forged higher quality campag or simplex ones, though I havent been able to view the bike yet
Has anyone ever seen a model below TDF/Super Corsa that had the chromed rear stays? From the description it sounds identical to my Interclub in all other aspects. Its likely to be a European model as Im in the UK
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:40 am |
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ps will try and get photos asap! |
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:18 pm |
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auchencrow |
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zootsuit wrote: |
Hi
Has anyone ever seen a model below TDF/Super Corsa that had the chromed rear stays? From the description it sounds identical to my Interclub in all other aspects. Its likely to be a European model as Im in the UK
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Hi zootsuit -
The '73 French catalog on this site shows several models with chromed rear stays, including the Paris, Federal and Aspin. That's not to say your prospect is not a Super Corsa or TdF! |
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:30 pm |
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scozim |
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Welcome Auchen! Good to see you here.
Scott |
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:14 pm |
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I've never seen an Interclub with chrome plated rear "socks". Gitane made a lot of different models for the French and other European markets and auchencrow points out some of them from the 1973 French catalog.
In the early 70s Gitane used some cheap Simplex rear dropouts without derailleur hangers on Tour de France frames. They had chrome plated socks on the rear triangle. The dropouts were forged not stamped.
Simplex Ref 881 dropouts.
1971 Simplex Catalog showing the Ref 881 dropouts.
I suspect that these were substituted for the standard Simplex dropouts because of availability issues. That was a frequent problem with components during the Bike Boom days.
Standard Simplex dropouts used from the early 1970s until 1974 when they switched to the Huret honeycomb dropouts.
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:35 pm |
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scozim wrote: |
Welcome Auchen! Good to see you here.
Scott |
Thanks Scott! |
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:04 am |
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zootsuit |
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Hi
Thanks for the info, I should have looked at the catalogues more carefully! I think it may be a Paris-Nice, it matches the red/purple colour and has the bubble lettering decals.it also has the blumels mudguards.
What's the quality of these framesets like? I assume they're not Reynolds tubing ... |
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:25 am |
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Here are some pics from the seller
this looks fairly spot on, apart from the prestige rear mech and the black drilled chainrings, its still a Sugino maxy though
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 1:36 pm |
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zootsuit wrote: |
Here are some pics from the seller
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Looks "nice"! (pun intended).
So is he offering it at a good price? Are you going to snag it - or have you already? |
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 4:12 am |
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Im going to try and pick it up tonight, what do you think would be a good price for it, I have no idea. Its up for autction , I was thinking of offering up to £80 ($120 US approx) Is that too much or a good price ? |
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:33 am |
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Sounds like a fair price. The shifters look like some Huret's that I took off a parts bike.
The fenders look nice with the same color as a frame. |
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Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 11:27 am |
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Damn I didn't win the auction! Oh well at least someone will be out riding it ! |
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