Originally Posted by
verktyg
The frame is probably a 1984 Team Pro Replica made of Columbus SL tubing. Everything looks right including the Stronglight A9 headset. These were sold as bare frames and complete bikes.
That's what I was thinking as well. I suspect the yellow was just sprayed over the original blue paint, god knows why.
During that time period Trek was marketing Gitanes in the US under the Cycles de France marque. [. . .] I'm always leery of odd things like mismatched forks, repainted rear triangles and so on. The yellow paint looks like a rattle can job. The rear dropouts were chrome plated but they've been painted over. Supposedly the Simplex dropouts that were used on these models had a reputation for breaking???
Yes, they did, and Trek did the warranty repairs for North America. I still have a bag of drive-side dropouts from that period.
I don't think think frame was one we repaired, though, as it would have been repainted in a proper fashion.