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Old 12-25-24 | 09:07 AM
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Bikes: '84 Raleigh Vector Mixte, '83 Motobecane Super Sprint, '71 Glider (Raleigh)

Originally Posted by Frkl
That's true, it is a super sport in the pic. Good eye, i didn't notice that because it looks about the same, and the text right next to it in the catalogs is for Jubilee Sport. Looking through the images, i remember they all had a similar paint job. I will look closer at the file in the next few days.

The fork is nice, stock, and super slim. I was a little worried at first, actually.

I have a feeling the head angle is quite steep, actually. I read somewhere else about that happening in big size with Motobecane. The frames were changing a lot at this time for Moto, i thinkm they were changing tube sets almost annually, and they were introducing Inexternal construction throughout the line up. So its quite possible that our two bikes represent one of those changes.

I am not sure they are Huret dropouts, but it came with and still has the little black half moon on each side. So the wheel is positioned in the middle of the drop outs
The give away was the drop out adjuster screw on your bike, which the Super Sprint never got.
I knew something was amiss comparing our photo's side by side.
I found it by using the M/S image tool- ran magnification up to max and found your adjuster screw.
This is still very interesting, and suggests your bike was probably a lot more towards top of the line than mine.
Now that I think about it, there was a lot of stuff happening at this time- my bike dates to about a year after the company actually was sold, and yours is a year later.
Now wondering if '84 was the last year for Moto's to be made in France...

-D.S.
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