Caterham, you are a needle in a haystack! I just picked up what I believe is a c210 / 220 - Columbus tubing, painted aelle fork and a 105 group. Any knowledge or wisdom on this model?




[QUOTE=caterham;7485186]what a lovely C-34.brings back memories. probably the best value bike in the line at the time and our second most popular selling model.



Cycles Andre Bertin was the french distributor for Shimano. most models of bertins came with the option of shimano, or complete french road groups and the upper end racing models could also be spec'd with campagnolo as well.



well.... as someone that worked for the us distributor at the time your bike was produced and imported into the u.s., one could say that there were both up and downsides to bertin philosophy & business practices.



i'd gather from the decalling and componentry that your c34 is from around 82, give or take a year. fwiw,arabesque was produced from 78-84


yes. absolutely tho i wouldn't get fanatical