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| lofter |
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anyone see the triple seated gitane they had on ebay this weekend. it was light blue and looked like a beast from hell . if it wasnt in new jersey i would have bought it it went for 144.00 it was a project . well you have a look . also theres one on french ebay too a red one.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:00 pm |
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| sandranian |
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I think I saw that in a catalogue...model name "Dethe Trappe" or similar. I think the "e's" at the end are silent.
I wonder where they are going to get the parts to fix that thing up, and what size is it??? |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:42 pm |
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| lol death trap. i emailed the guy he said its bout 9and a half to ten feet long probably heavy as a tank. |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:36 pm |
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I saw this beast on eBay too. I recall seeing something like it back in the 70s.
This is a rig job. I doubt that it's a Gitane built bike. Gitane stickers were easy to come by in the early 70s. They don't completely wrap around the oversized tubes.
The wheels are off of a small motorcycle and the fork looks like it came off of a motorcycle too. The "ape hanger" bars were not popular in Europe at that time.
There were some lugless French 650B tandem frames from the mid 1970s that a number of different French bike makers put their stickers on. I've seen the same frames from Folis, Gitane, Bertin and several other marques.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:38 am |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:20 am |
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| lofter wrote: |
http://cgi.ebay.fr/velo-trois-place-plus-porte-bebe-marque-gitane_W0QQitemZ120093389530QQihZ002QQcategoryZ134245QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
a red one looks the same cept fot the ape hangers |
Je prendrai la moutarde avec mon pied dans la maladie de bouche
I'll take mustard with my "foot in mouth disease"!
I remember seeing a B&W picture of one of these beasts in a trade journal in the mid 1970s but I don't remember the details.
I guess Gitane like Motobecane made motorcycles too:
http://cgi.ebay.fr/CYCLOS-et-MOTOS-GITANE_W0QQitemZ220089081175QQihZ012QQcategoryZ123998QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting
That's probably where the wheels and fork came from. The "U" shaped downtube/seattube combos look just like the ones used on Gitane folding bikes w/o the joint.
These things must weigh a ton - or at least 50k.
Back in the day there were some Korean made tires for kids bikes - Dy Yung brand!
Chas,
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