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Old 09-28-24 | 12:18 PM
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Markeologist
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Bikes: Our all steel stable: Rodriguez, Ritchey & Bruce Gordon road tandems; Burley pub crawler tandem; two XO-1s, two Fishers, a Comp & Mt Tam; two Gitane TeamPros; 60s Carre; 69-70 Gitane TdF and

As the catalog shows (thats an 1988 version as I recall), 531C was used on the Vainqueur. All I’ve seen of that model were red, however, the internal cable routing from top of tube on your frame is I believe consistent with that model. Gitane reintroduced the Team Pro/Replica in 87, it was made w/ 531P and cables were routed up from bottom of tube. The first year of Systeme U they initially used these blue frames. The Exploit in this catalog was the Team Pro/Replica from 1987 with new paint job. Yours could be a repaint/redecal. If so, it could also the Success model and actually be 501. Here are my 87 Team Pro/Replicas, one owned since new:

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