Nativo

I have a Pearl White 57cm Vitus 979 Dural with Dura Ace Santé group, don’t know year. It’s about a 7.5/10 with no crashes nor anything bent just paint chipped and scratches.Anyway to know what year it is and its value?

francophile 

Tough to say, mostly because the Vitus re-sold the 979 frames to be re-branded by so many different manufacturers. I've got a Motobecane Pro Mark frame in my basement that's 979. Note this is a bonded (glued) frame which comes with natural mistrust from many in the cycling community after horror stories about tubes separating have been passed down here or there.

If branded with Vitus decals specifically, it's probably actually a Vitus bike. I'm not aware of any way to specifically date them other than a decade, which I'd center around the mid-late 80s. If everything was Sante, down to the hubs, and the date codes match across all the Sante equipment, it *could* be semi-safe to assume it's original equipment, by which you could potentially use that to ballpark the date of the frameset.

As for value, I and many others won't put a dollar value on anything without pictures. You can click on the Gallery above, create a new album there, and tell us, we can help you get those pics into this thread since you don't have 10 posts yet.

Jmpierce

Look at this link, its where I did some of the research on my 979. You should be able to figure to the year by the serial number.

https://on-the-drops.blogspot.com/20...l#comment-form