marius.suiram
I live for the CABE
I got this one.
Any comments are welcome
Any comments are welcome
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Mondia Special, early 70's
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marius.suiram
I live for the CABE
531 Reynolds frame, fork and stays.
Campagnolo except rear derailleur and shifters, and brakes
Campagnolo except rear derailleur and shifters, and brakes
bulldog1935
Cruisin' on my Bluebird
Vagner fork crown and Nervar lugs
SunTour RD was big on French bikes in early 70s
SunTour RD was big on French bikes in early 70s
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marius.suiram
I live for the CABE
Suntour was not original at the bike, right?
bulldog1935
Cruisin' on my Bluebird
It could well have been, Motobecane was using SunTour RD on Grand Touring in 1971, and Peugeot was close behind. The French like this RD, and it's better than Campy.
Gruppos didn't arrive until after the bike boom ended, early 80s. Before that, all parts were sold individually and bike people used what made sense.
Beginning in 1975, it was nothing to see an all-Campy bike with Cyclone RD (because it was better and was a mark of prestige and smarts).
Take a photo, and I'll tell you if the RD is as old as the bike.
Or here - http://velobase.com/ListComponents.aspx?Category=108&BrandID=b0cbe80a-c06e-4864-a3ab-dac2d4abd9e6
V-GT arrived in 72
GT in 70
Shimano began copying Suntour slant parallelogram as soon as the patent expired in '82. Campy only held out until 1988 (after experimenting with silly things to duplicate all the motions) and their Chorus began SunTour copies.
Though with that, they made a better SunTour than SunTour
Gruppos didn't arrive until after the bike boom ended, early 80s. Before that, all parts were sold individually and bike people used what made sense.
Beginning in 1975, it was nothing to see an all-Campy bike with Cyclone RD (because it was better and was a mark of prestige and smarts).
Take a photo, and I'll tell you if the RD is as old as the bike.
Or here - http://velobase.com/ListComponents.aspx?Category=108&BrandID=b0cbe80a-c06e-4864-a3ab-dac2d4abd9e6
V-GT arrived in 72
GT in 70
Shimano began copying Suntour slant parallelogram as soon as the patent expired in '82. Campy only held out until 1988 (after experimenting with silly things to duplicate all the motions) and their Chorus began SunTour copies.
Though with that, they made a better SunTour than SunTour
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marius.suiram
I live for the CABE
The rear is a V-GT Luxe, I will take a better
picture tomorrow
bulldog1935
Cruisin' on my Bluebird
came out in '73, and would be a perfect match with that wide freewheel.
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WVBicycles
Finally riding a big boys bike
most Mondia's Ive seen were all Campy and I am gonna assume the RD and rear wheel are not original
marius.suiram
I live for the CABE
I agree with the derailleur, but why the wheel? It is matching with the front and has Campi hub
bulldog1935
Cruisin' on my Bluebird
Campy has never had a good wide-range rear derailleur. Any SunTour GT is the no-brainer choice.
Any good bike shop would deliver a bike however you want (bars, stem, saddle, whatever you need/want swapped gratis), and if the freewheel did not come from Mondia, both could still be original from the bike shop.
But if Mondia delivered the bike with that freewheel, they also delivered the SunTour RD
In the age of gruppos (and catalog collecting/ bike parting), people have forgotten what the bike boom was all about.
Any good bike shop would deliver a bike however you want (bars, stem, saddle, whatever you need/want swapped gratis), and if the freewheel did not come from Mondia, both could still be original from the bike shop.
But if Mondia delivered the bike with that freewheel, they also delivered the SunTour RD
In the age of gruppos (and catalog collecting/ bike parting), people have forgotten what the bike boom was all about.
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