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Ex Pres
Well, the frames are mostly stripped of parts. The Crescent takes a 27.0 seat post easily now. Looks aligned, too, so no issues there. Orange on the steerer. It does have Campy drops, so it appears to have started life as a 320. The Gitane has metallic green paint on the steerer, though more metallic than the catalogue shows. It is just overspray on a chrome steerer, however.
Thanks very much for this additional information.
Crescent pillar size what one would have expected.
Model 319 also received the Campag 1010 ends. The difference between 319 and 320 was in the fittings.
There are different geometries. The factory sponsored Swedish cycling champion Gosta Pettersson and he preferred a spinrter/climber sort of bike so they built some 319/320 machines with short wheelbases and beefy stays. These bikes have toeclip overlap.
There are also 319/320 iterations with more of a middle of the road sort of geometry. These are built with standard gauge stays and have toeclip clearance.
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