[CR]re: Gitane TDF

(Example: Production Builders:Cinelli)

Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:11:17 -0500
From: "Daniel Artley" <dartley@baltimorecountymd.gov>
To: "Classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR]re: Gitane TDF


I worked in a shop that sold Gitane before and during the 70's bike boom north of Baltimore. Zoltan, the owner, would bring potential buyers into the back of the shop to point out how my PX-10 couldn't compare to the Tour de France. I never heard anything bad about the TdF bikes, and figured they were practically clones, but I still liked my PX-10 with the fancy Nervex lugs, white and black combination. In Baltimore in the late sixties, you could generally say the faster club riders rode PX-10's, and the racer's, Paramounts.

Happy trails,

Dan Artley in Parkton, MD