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Old 04-29-19, 01:25 AM
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JaccoW
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Originally Posted by alexnagui
Is this one of these Gazelle Lausanne Hybride Lite Special Edition? Nice bike! What is that Champion Mondial sticker doing there?
That's the one. At least as far as I can tell going by the colours of this one.

I'm not sure about the sticker to be honest. There is not a lot of information on these bikes online. They were built at the end of the era that Gazelle still made steel frames by hand in their own factory. A few years later they made these (using the same name) out of aluminium.

The champion mondial name is still highly recognizable around here so my guess is they wanted to show it had some of its "DNA" in this bike. Remember, they always made a Champion Mondial semi-race model which was like a lightweight city/commuting bike.
This is probably its successor after they stopped making the Champion Mondial racing and touring bikes.

I'm ordering a lot of parts right now. I think I'll try digging up some more info and maybe start a thread.
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