Nice paint job. The green is close to the color Gitane came out with in 1974 when they switched from foil decals to the yellow or green clear plastic sheet style.

Yours is the "TANDEM SPORT" model.

We kept at least one of those Gitane tandems at the shop until about 1976 when they became unavailable. Most of them had Mafac Cantilever brakes but I've seen them with Mafac Caliper brakes like yours.

Only rode double on one of them for a few short rides but lots of single test rides on new bikes and customer's bike we were working on.

Most of those tandems we worked on were set up with a brake lever for the Atom drum brake on the rear bars. Some folks thought that it gave the stoker something to do or at least the sense of some control.

They used an odd 1 1/8" headset. We tried to grab all we could get when we found them. They may have been British thread??? Also there may have been some Stronglight 1 1/8" headsets used on those tandems.

1969 Flyer, List Price $199.50


1970's Catalog. This picture was probably filmed in Maryland not France.



In 1976 we started bringing in a few Andre Bertin tandems from France.



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