Can someone ID this Falcon?
05-10-20, 04:59 PM
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Can someone ID this Falcon?
It’s not a decal I’m used to seeing for Falcon as they typically had bars on either end of the word Falcon. Clearly 70s but that’s as much as I can tell.
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05-10-20, 05:52 PM
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Looks like a Sugino Maxy crankset and SunTout V rear derailleur with a V-Compe up front. If OEM, this suggests, post boom, circa 1975-1976. The rear dropouts appear to be stamped, so the the tubeset would,at best, be plain gauge Reynolds 531 plain gauge tubes. I'm thinking along the lines of an Olympic 78. Serial number? Seat post diameter?
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Here is a BICYCLING! magazine review of the model Olympic 78 from 1975. Your example appears it might be a year or so later...
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Here is a BICYCLING! magazine review of the model Olympic 78 from 1975. Your example appears it might be a year or so later...
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05-10-20, 06:09 PM
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I'm going to guess the Falcon Super Route. I have a white Falcon with the exact same Falcon decal on the down tube, same wrapover seatstays, same Maxi crank, same Weinmann brakes and same concave rims. The frame would have three main tubes of seamless straight gauge Reynolds 531 tubing. It was their mid level bike and would have cost about $250 in the year 1978. It could have been build between 1973 and 1979. There was also a model "Olympic" with the same frame and similar components around this time as well.
Falcon Super Route
I was watching this bike on ebay years ago and was outbid by someone else. Turned out it was my wife. I still had to pay for it.
Falcon Super Route
I was watching this bike on ebay years ago and was outbid by someone else. Turned out it was my wife. I still had to pay for it.
05-10-20, 08:52 PM
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I'm going to guess the Falcon Super Route. I have a white Falcon with the exact same Falcon decal on the down tube, same wrapover seatstays, same Maxi crank, same Weinmann brakes and same concave rims. The frame would have three main tubes of seamless straight gauge Reynolds 531 tubing. It was their mid level bike and would have cost about $250 in the year 1978. It could have been build between 1973 and 1979. There was also a model "Olympic" with the same frame and similar components around this time as well.
Falcon Super Route
I was watching this bike on ebay years ago and was outbid by someone else. Turned out it was my wife. I still had to pay for it.
Falcon Super Route
I was watching this bike on ebay years ago and was outbid by someone else. Turned out it was my wife. I still had to pay for it.
05-10-20, 09:20 PM
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The wheels are actually 700c so there was ample room for fenders. I thought a previous owner may have swapped out the wheels as I had never seen concave rims as original equipment and the hubs were Campy where most of the other components were Japanese. But your photo shows the brake blocks all the way down the same as my bike which means it may have 700c rims also.
There was a huge variety of components on Falcon bikes in the 1970's so anything is possible. Bikes didn't always follow the catalogue descriptions. I had one mid-level Falcon that had all Zeus components. Falcon was probably scrambling to source parts to keep up with the bicycle demand of the bike boom of the 1970s.
All of my mid level Falcons seemed to wear out the Titlist rear derailler.
There was a huge variety of components on Falcon bikes in the 1970's so anything is possible. Bikes didn't always follow the catalogue descriptions. I had one mid-level Falcon that had all Zeus components. Falcon was probably scrambling to source parts to keep up with the bicycle demand of the bike boom of the 1970s.
All of my mid level Falcons seemed to wear out the Titlist rear derailler.
