I'm bursting right now, everyone. I've been looking for a Motobecane Le Champion for awhile now, and wouldn't you know it, I've just found one for 200 bones.

Here she is:




It will need a good cleaning, but it's in great shape. No rust and the paint only has a few tiny boogers on it. The previous owner bought it in the early seventies and swapped in suntour barcons (which I personally love and am going to keep).

The not so good:
Previous owner took off the campy NR and put on a suntour v-gt luxe rear derailleur.

I've been looking through the online catalogues and figured it's somewhere in the 1970 to 1973 range, but I still can't nail down the exact year. Any guesses based on the logo stickers and lettering?



It's all reynolds 531 with a stronglight competition headset, stronglight crankset, milremo stem, cinelli bars (doesn't seem to be original), and a weinmann vainqueur 999 brake setup (also not original). All of the clips and fasteners are campy.

So which Nuovo Record derailleur should I be looking to find? I've never owned one and there seems to be a bunch of different types...