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Old 10-22-16 | 06:27 AM
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Bikes: Current favorites: 1988 Peugeot Birraritz, 1984 Gitane Super Corsa, 1980s DeRosa, 1981 Bianchi Campione Del Mondo, 1992 Paramount OS, 1988 Colnago Technos, 1985 RalieghUSA SBDU Team Pro

Most Mondias imported into the US during the 1970s had all Reynolds 531 frames with Campy dropouts.

Your frame was probably a private label model Tour de Suisse with stamped steel dropouts.

Here's a link from 2010 with lots of good speculation:

http://www.bikeforums.net/classic-vi...-question.html

Mondia and several other Swiss makes stamped the serial numbers into the top of the left side seat stays. Here's my bike boom era Mondia Special:


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