Originally Posted by
Lascauxcaveman
I just assumed they are the French/English variations on the same word. I would expect the French version to have the accented E, though. Maybe dropping the accent is just a way to streamline the graphics on the labels. A marketing/graphic design decision rather than a grammatical one. Labeling aside, that's a pretty nice bike for sawbuck.
I figured as much. I pointed that out on the off chance that there was a super rare run of these where the factory mis-marked the frames and they didn't get out into the public except through Motobecane employees and only three are known to exist in the western world...or something like that.
'Guess not.
