Re: [CR]LeJeune won TdF?

(Example: Framebuilding:Brazing Technique)

From: "jerrymoos" <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
To: <themaaslands@comcast.net>
References: <CATFOOD33HFnwpGR88100001b98@catfood.nt.phred.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]LeJeune won TdF?
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 22:11:58 -0500
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

Thanks, that would probably date the frame at 1969 or 1970 (or maybe late 1968, if they could design and produce the decals that fast then). I never saw a decal like this in the early 70's when I bought my 1093 LeJeune, so I don't think they used it very long.

Regards,

Jerry Moos


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From: themaaslands@comcast.net
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 9:59 PM
Subject: Re: [CR]LeJeune won TdF?



> Jan Janssen in 1968
>
> Steven Maasland
> Moorestown, NJ
> > Just received a LeJeune frame I bought from Brian Blum. 60's vintage
> > probably. The headtube decal has a map of France and the legend "Vainqueur
> > Tour de France", but it doesn't say what year. Anyone know what year
> > LeJeune won the Tour de France? This would have been before 1970 from the
> > age of this frame. After 1970 Lucien van Impe tried for a decade riding
> > LeJeune, but won the tour only after switching to Gitane.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jerry Moos
> > Houston, TX