Thread: Can you help me by ID-ing this bike?
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Old 07-01-19 | 03:33 AM
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It's a Liberia
As per Mssr [MENTION=383399]MauriceMoss[/MENTION] post:

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a Liberia...

Case closed!

We sold entry level and a few mid range Liberia bikes back in 1975-77. They rode nicely for what they were.

There were a number of large French bicycle manufacturers like Manufrance and Starnord that contract built lower priced bikes for other bike manufactures and also large bike shops throughout France. Buy enough bikes and they would put any name you wanted on them.

The swagged seat stay caps combined with the Vitus dropouts, lugs, and fork crown matches the photos of Liberia frames posted by [MENTION=383399]MauriceMoss[/MENTION].

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