Originally Posted by
old's'cool
Do you have a specific example to back that up? There is no similarity between your statement about "70's era Motos" and my 78 Grand Jubilé.
Yes, a Fuji or a Trek was much better bike than Moto in every price catagory. Specifically the Jubile was saddled with the Huret Jubile, and crummy French cranks, weird threads and tubing sizes. Moto was one of the first big brands to go belly up. By then the Moto name was dirt, took 20 years before anyone would buy the name and use it on bikes.
Contrast Raleigh and Schwinn, both names have lived on in the US market for 70 and 100 years. Gitane was so bad nobody has bought that name yet....