Originally Posted by
due ruote
Looks to me like one of the “inexternal lugless” models they had in the early ‘80s. The color doesn’t look familiar but I am fallible. Could also be a repaint, or non-US model as mentioned.
Have you looked around the Bulgier site?
bulgier.net - /pics/bike/Catalogs/Motobecane/
Yeah, you're right I'm pretty sure. One of the inexternal 80s models. '85 Mirage perhaps?
After 1981, when Motobecane went bankrupt and Lawee dropped them, they really pretty much disappeared from the market. I worked at a Motobecane shop, and we dropped them. Replaced with Bianchi and Fuji. Pretty much everyone else did the same. Must have been some who continued to carry them, but I don't remember any. It was a very rapid fall. I'm not sure who picked up distribution.
It may have been a completely different story in Canada.