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Paul -- I may not visit this Gitane web site very often, but hang out regularly at:
http://www.bikeforums.net/forumdisplay.php?forumid=44
This is the bike forums tandem web site. We have about ... |
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Several months after this post the Gitane was gone to a new home with a couple of graduate students at UC Davis. It was replaced by a new Co-Motion Speedster. We credited the Gitane for getting us a ... |
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Based on a bit more research, I am inclined to conclude that it is a circa 1978 model, although it is still hard to tell. The decal style seems to confirm it, as does the existence of the unused idle ... |
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Thanks much for the reply! I checked the catalogs again, and it appears that the shift from front to rear location for the chain rings was in the mid-1980s -- perhaps making this a newer bike. The 1 ... |
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Just got this tandem, which I was told was circa 1990:
http://www.pbase.com/g2_steve/gitane_tandem
Based on research I've done on this and other web sites, I'm stilll unsure what model this is. ... |
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