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07-28-21, 09:59 AM
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Yeah, but yours is a 1985, the last year for the Super LeTour, and the year it was built with Tenax. The standard LeTour used unnamed 4130 that year, and it wasn't until '86 that it was listed as True Temper double butted.
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0904 head badge stamp points to Friday, March 30th 1984 if it's original to the bike. April 1984 serial number jives with my 1984 Letour Luxe, with (May) S/N SE405xxx. single shifter braze-on, on the top of the downtube.
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07-28-21, 05:56 PM
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I seem to smell crow cooking!! The catalogues were a great help. One thing for sure is it not a Tempo. My special investment cast lug at the top of the seatube is nothing like the catalogue. And I will get a seat post measurement tomorrow. I pulled the post and it is nun too unreadable.
Thanks, Pete
Thanks, Pete
07-29-21, 09:03 PM
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What's the seatpost diameter? If it's 26.6 it's a Tempo that has been reworked with a top mount shift boss. If it's 26.4 with that top mount boss it's a LeTour or a Super LeTour, which were built with unnamed double-butted chrome-moly.
As an aside, from 1986-1991 LeTours were built with True Temper double-butted tubing and took a 26.6 mm seatpost.
I recommend these scans from Waterford.
As an aside, from 1986-1991 LeTours were built with True Temper double-butted tubing and took a 26.6 mm seatpost.
I recommend these scans from Waterford.
Letour or Super Letour?
07-30-21, 06:31 AM
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Have you serviced the headset yet? When you do that you can check to see if there is original paint on the steerer. The only difference between the LeTour and the Super LeTour's catalog descriptions regarding the frame itself is the standard LeTour is described as having stainless dropout faces while the Super LeTour is not described that way. Apart from that, the only differences I see between the two are paint color and surprisingly few parts differences.
