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Old 10-06-13 | 05:11 PM
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Bikes: 1975 Eisentraut Ltd, 1995 Trek 7000 MTB, 2007 Masi Vincere, 1974 Masi GC, 1981 Specialized Allez, 1984 Specialized Sequoia

I love that SC in green, all the others too. They were definitely one of the first bikes I really wanted as a teenager. Here's mine before repaint. I stripped the head foil and sent it to Cyclomondo for a replica to be made but it never came to fruition. Funny story, though. I had found an original unused Gitane foil decal set in combination with a similarly vintage Schwinn Paramount decal set on ebay and had bid on it, waiting to up my bid at the end. I ultimately lost the bid and I messaged the winner to ask if he was more interested in the Paramount set I would buy the Gitane set from him. Turned out that he was Robert Broderick, another of the great GitaneUSA experts who has his own site over at www.velo-pages.com, and his intent was to send the original Gitane decals to Cyclomondo so that the replicas to be made. I, of course, bowed to the greater good! My great respect to Chas Colrich also! The second pic is what became of my SC after repaint.



Jim

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