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Old 04-16-22 | 12:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Clang

This ($60?) Batavus Tour de l'Europe with an upgraded crankset. It looks like it's maybe a 24" frame (though it's hard to tell with bad pics)- an inch too big but perhaps within the fudge-factor range.

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My first bike-shop bike was a Batavus Tour de l’Europe like that, but the darker brown they used in ‘75. Nice Brooks B17 on this specimen, I think - and the upgraded crankset is a nice bonus - the 3-pin swaged Sugino Maxy on mine always flexed, and I was a scrawny lad!
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