Re: [CR]Le Champion - help me date this Motobecane

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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:39:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Le Champion - help me date this Motobecane
To: Rich Pinder <rpinder@usc.edu>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <4761A805.3090609@usc.edu>


Same graphics, but different color, than my circa 1978 Team Champion.

Regards,

Jerry Moos Big Spring, TX

Rich Pinder <rpinder@usc.edu> wrote: Thanks all.. so far we are indeed narrowin in a bit here !! Some thinkin the 78/9 time saw this graphic scheme start... others say later (as here)

79 showed same image... but color offered was 'Champagne / Gold'. So 78 may be it. Here is a BEAUTIFUL example which is just like my frame..and listed here as 78:

http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/CV-6+Enterprises/Catalog/78+LeChampion_20071024_01res.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1

(if anyone has the 78 Motobecane catalog... I'd LOVE to see it !!)

Thanks all who've helped !!

Rich

Steve Birmingham wrote:
> That one would be from 1980-81, maybe a year earlier or later.
> I have a "grand sprint" with identical graphics that I bought new in 81.
> It may have been a 1980 leftover, but the team champion he had when I picked
> mine up
> was also the same, and that was an 81 since he special ordered it for
> someone.
> I think the graphics changed for 82, they certainly did for 83
>
> Steve Birmingham
> Lowell, Ma
> USA
>
>
>
> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:36:11 -0800
> From: Rich Pinder
> Subject: [CR]Le Champion - help me date this Motobecane
> Message: 10
>
> I'm looking around for a Motobecane catalog to help me place this frame.
> Found 76 and 84 catalogs online - and this plain, homely little thing
> surely falls somewhere in between.
> Top tube cable guides, but no bb cable routing.
> Also interesting how far to the REAR that derailleur cable stop is ??
> No chrome on this one (76 does, 84 doesnt)
>
> http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~rpinder/images/whatisit.jpg
>
> Thanks
> Rich Pinder
> Van Nuys, CA