Re: [CR] gitane tour de france

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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:37:13 -0700
From: "mitch harris" <mitch.harris531@gmail.com>
To: Dan Evans Design <dan@danevansdesign.com>
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] gitane tour de france

http://www.gitaneusa.com/ http://www.gitaneusa.com/forum/

Here are some links for Gitane interest.

Mitch Harris Little Rock Canyon, Utah, USA

p.s. As I mentioned I ran mine for a while fixed, which was possible with the vertical drops because there were a few ratios that fit--51x20 was my fixed mainstay on this bike.

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Dan Evans Design <danevansdesign@yahoo.fr>wrote:
> dan evans
> aquitaine
> france
>
> hello to everyone.
>
> i would like to ask everyone about there thoughts on an early 70s gitane"
> tour de fance" frame. 531 frame and forks with some intresting square
> looking dropouts which are chromed.
> i'm just wandering how these frames are viewed around the world. are they
> respected, collected or rejected?
> they seem quite fond of them in the US.
>
> any thoughts appreciated.
>
> dan evans
> aquitaine
> france