Originally Posted by OrangeOkie
Keep addding more coats of lacquer until that bar tape shines glossy maroon!
Beautiful bike.
I have about 4 coats on now and it does need a few more. The tape really absorbs the lacquer!
Originally Posted by bikerosity57
Seriously, I'm sick with jelosy! I had a real crush on a Grand Jub. like that when I was a kid. I used to go into Ed's bike shop in Vineland NJ and just stare at it hanging from the ceiling. I had a girl that I liked way back when who owned one too, lucky beeatch! I wish to God that Steven Hawkings guy would get working on a time machine!!!
You're a lucky person, I envy you!
Keep a look out... Grand Jubile's and Grand Record's from the '70's do show up every once in a while on ebay.
After 1979 or so Motobecane stopped using Campagnolo and Huret parts and switched to japanese parts and the desirabilty went down, but reliability went up! They also switched to Vitus frames so the Nervex lugs went by the wayside as well. Even the front badge was changed from a nice brass circular version to a square plastic one.
I have a '75 or so grand Jubile in parts right now because I am in search for a smaller frame. But having just finished the Grand Record I am in no hurry to start building again right now. I do want to build a city bike out of the grand Jubile with inverse brake levers, honjo fenders, and front rack.
The Grand Record is actually pretty original except for the brakes, fenders and racks... the biggest challenge was fitting the Japanese fenders and American racks to a French frame... not alot of experience doing this led me to many a cursefest!!! But I took my time, measured, and re-measured. After that it was a piece of cake fitting thebrakes, the Campagnolo Nuovo Record parts back on and running the cables.
Thanks for all the complements everybody!