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Old 01-08-15 | 11:44 PM
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Bikes: 72 Cilo Pacer, 72 Gitane GT, 72 Peugeot PX10, 73 Speedwell Ti,l, 75 Peugeot PR-10L, 80 Colnago Super, 81 Zinn, 85 ALAN Cross, 85 De Rosa Pro, 86 Look 753, 86 Look KG86, 89 Parkpre Team, 90 Parkpre Team MTB, 90 Merlin

Originally Posted by mechanicmatt
With those graphics, rear dropouts, unicrown fork, and bottom bracket, I'm going with late 80's top of the line road bike from the show room floor of Service Merchandise.
LOL. I helped produce some Service Merchandise catalogs about 15 years ago. That's a pretty good guess! I suggested Gitane before seeing the pics, but it looks like a mid-range (posing as higher) dept. store bike. For dating purposes, I had those same brakes on a '84 Peugeot PGN10. But the unicrown fork seems later(?). Anyway, mid-range contract/rebranded bike from the mid-80s with a Reynolds decal added later seems right to me. Pretty soon someone is this forum is bound to come along and know exactly what it is and have owned the very same model, but that person isn't me. The bike is worth getting back on the road, but the rust is troublesome and I wouldn't waste a lot of money or energy on it.

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