A fellow I know (and who knew me) told me a few years ago that he had an old bike looking for a good home and he just now dropped it off. I am not partial to Gitane bikes, having had several with crappy plastic-bodied Simplex derailleurs with crappy bendy black plastic Simplex gear change levers.
This one has lots of Japanese parts (Sugino chain rings and Sugino Maxy cranks, Suntour GT derailleur) and has a Brooks Professional saddle, PIVO stem, and French Mafac brakes - and Mavic tubulars on Normandy hubs. If he can find the clinchers, he will drop them off....
Seems like a decent bike, but dirty and I have started cutting the thick, heavy dirty handlebar wrapper off to expose the bars so I can redo the tape..
Is the Japanese stuff stock or did it get rebuilt ??
Any idea of what year it was built ??
Bink.
