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'Lil Knee Scuffer
Just joined your community to share some of my bikes and hopefully get some information.
first off i want to share my most recent find, i bought this bike for 75$. i use to have a Gitane sport deluxe and always wanted one of their high end models so i knew what this bike was just from the photos , even without a description.
for 75 $ i was not expecting much but when i saw it in person my jaw about dropped, it was everything i hoped it would be and more.
the only thing that bothers me is even though everything is original the parts dont line up perfectly to what the catalogs say a super corsa should have.
the frame and tubeing seems to be corsa but it has simplex dropouts, simplex was on the tdf. then it has normandy hubs also tdf but compagnalo everything else like a corsa. then theres the brakes all gitane has mafac " racer " or " racer luxe " brakes but this bike has mafac "competition ".
i have long heard french bikes became a mixed bag at times when the factorys ran low on parts but that leaves me with the question of what do i have exactly? and what year would this bike be?
first off i want to share my most recent find, i bought this bike for 75$. i use to have a Gitane sport deluxe and always wanted one of their high end models so i knew what this bike was just from the photos , even without a description.
for 75 $ i was not expecting much but when i saw it in person my jaw about dropped, it was everything i hoped it would be and more.
the only thing that bothers me is even though everything is original the parts dont line up perfectly to what the catalogs say a super corsa should have.
the frame and tubeing seems to be corsa but it has simplex dropouts, simplex was on the tdf. then it has normandy hubs also tdf but compagnalo everything else like a corsa. then theres the brakes all gitane has mafac " racer " or " racer luxe " brakes but this bike has mafac "competition ".
i have long heard french bikes became a mixed bag at times when the factorys ran low on parts but that leaves me with the question of what do i have exactly? and what year would this bike be?