kathyrae71

Hi everyone,

My husband and I have two bikes and would like to know a good starting point for a price. I am brand spanking new so I am not able to post pictures yet.

Bike 1- Mid 70's women's Gitane Tour De France. It's the original white with a little luggage rack and the metal fenders. It's a 10 speed. The handlebars are kind of like the Touriste, with the plastic hand brake levers. The shifters are on the body of the bike.

Bike 2- 1978? Men's Schwinn Le Tour lll that is the original lovely 70's orange color. It has the ramhorn handlebars. It is also a 10 speed with the shifters on the neck of the handlebars.

Both bikes are all original and hardly ridden.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks again.

StarBiker

You will have to post, so start waving to everybody.....(Man, I haven't been brand spankin' new for a long time)


Shifters are called downtube shifters.


You will take a hit on value on the Gitane because it's a woman's bike. Still have to see some pics.


The Le Tour https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...-tour-iii.html


These could be worth $75 - $150. And that might be for both.

randyjawa 

Welcome to the Bike Forums and to be granted access to picture posting you will have to post at least 10 times and over at least a two day period of time. Or upload what you have to your gallery and then link to them. Not sure how to explain how to do that.

The woman's Gitane should fetch between $75 and $100, depending on condition, size of the bike and, believe it or not, the area that you live in. Additionally, selling value, if that is the numbers you seek, also depends on your marketing ability.

The same holds true for the Schwinn but I know little about Schwinn bikes, having owned only one that impressed me with one thing - it was horribly heavy. That said, again all of the above condition apply, the Schwinn should fetch up to $150 but that is really an uneducated guess.

Hope that is a help.

kathyrae71

Does responding to posts count?

StarBiker

Nah.....

randyjawa 

Yes, so tell us a bit about your bike. When got, how old, where you live is important information, And/or look at other threads to see if anything there interests you, and respond. Things like that will get you into the post pictures club in no time.

kathyrae71

A friend of ours, about a year ago, said he was getting rid of his bikes. It had been decades, literally, since they rode them . We have had them downstairs in our basement.

ramzilla

Check out the Gitane Tour de France for frame stickers. If it bears a Reynolds 531 sticker, then it's worth a little more than what is quoted above.

branko_76 

I think noobs should have to do 10 posts of community service before being allowed to ask for appraisals...

StarBiker

No, the rack I say.......

tkuczura

Yes welcome to the forum

tkuczura

Where is the sign-up sheet?

kathyrae71

Is it bad I would be more okay with the rack than community posts?

StarBiker

Your okay with me. It's that hooded fella.......

TugaDude

As many of us know, location really matters right now. There are parts of the country where bikes are becoming as rare as hen's teeth. Even here in St. Louis there was a news story about how busy the bike shops are. Should the OP be lucky enough to be in a hot market, and the bikes are in good shape, perhaps they will sell much higher than they normally would.

Schreck83 

Not at all! Might improve the fit of the frame. Keep posting so we can see the mixte Tour de France.
min of 10 posts, max of 5 per day, then you are free to post photos!

StarBiker

Kathy will 104 by the time she gets 10 posts.

madpogue 

Uh, yes, it does.

StarBiker

steve sumner

the men's Tour de France was Gitane's 2nd from top of the line
a woman's version might be quite rare on the other hand Gitane
was well known for using whatever was at hand for stickers and
even parts. our shop sold them and I often had to explain why the
bike didn't match the catalog. my guess is that your bike is actually
a different model than the Tour de France.

ramzilla

All I remember that BITD the Gitane Tour de France bikes were top of the line items with nice 531 frames & high end components. They were comparable to Schwinn Paramount, Puegeot PX-10 and, Bottecchia Campagnola. But, they always looked like they were assembled on Friday after the crew drank too much wine on lunch break. And, after all these years the paint coating finish on most of them has completely disintegrated. So, if it's a really nice one then, it's worth some serious coin.

madpogue 

^^^^ Alas, this one's not:

tkuczura

Very nice condition