The SuperCycle Thread- A Celebration of Vintage Supercycles
10-21-20, 07:35 AM
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Perhaps the followers of this thread can help with a dating question. Based on the very hard to read catalog pages, the bike above seems to match the 1972 version of this bike....centre pull brakes and Huret derailleurs. As well, I have attached a picture of what was purported to be a 1972 MB Nomade and its pretty much identical except for the brakes. (Note the use of Suntour stem shifters on the French bike!)
Yet the few date codes I can find point to a later year: rims are dated 1973 and pedals mid-1974, making this at least a 1974/5 version. The 1973 catalog shows the "Tour de France" with cheap sidepull brakes.
Does anyone have a 1974 or 1975 catalog scan that might show if this bike was still sold in this configuration in 1974 or 75?
Yet the few date codes I can find point to a later year: rims are dated 1973 and pedals mid-1974, making this at least a 1974/5 version. The 1973 catalog shows the "Tour de France" with cheap sidepull brakes.
Does anyone have a 1974 or 1975 catalog scan that might show if this bike was still sold in this configuration in 1974 or 75?
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02-05-21, 06:10 PM
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02-05-21, 07:49 PM
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That's the Super Cycle Excalibur I was thinking about.
Can you add an image from the drive side that shows the entire bike?
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02-09-21, 01:50 PM
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02-09-21, 02:36 PM
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02-10-21, 02:42 PM
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Agreed. The axis through the stem to the upper fork blade does look odd. Hopefully its just photo distortion. A friend of mine rides a pink Supercycle 10 speed from the late seventies/ early 80s that was a Raleigh. I'll have to ask him for the details.
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02-11-21, 03:39 AM
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02-11-21, 06:19 AM
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I believe the Excalibur was involved in a front end crash and that a previous owner tried to pull the blades back to their original position but overcompensated. If you enlarge the picture, you'll see a forward bend at the top of the blades, about 2-3 cm, below the crown. It looks like there could be a fracture in the paint, directly opposite the bend, at the back of the blade but it could just be a scratch or attached foreign matter. Another piece of evidence supporting a front end crash are the mismatched wheels.
02-11-21, 06:22 AM
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What's the serial number on the red, Motobecane built Excalibur? It may allow me to corroborate the year or at least the era.
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