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Cima Coppi offers the possibillity to create a vintage look jersey. As a graphic person I've made some sketches on their sample pictures they show on the website. I used a close reproduction of my favorit end '70's gitane-logo. As you can see Cima Coppi asks a serious price. Don't know yet what...

Cima Coppi offers the possibillity to create a vintage look jersey. As a graphic person I've made some sketches on their sample pictures they show on the website. I used a close reproduction of my favorit end '70's gitane-logo. As you can see Cima Coppi asks a serious price. Don't know yet what...

I was at Willem's backyard last Friday. So funny, totally loaded with vintage bikes and stuff. At that moment a young teenage girl came along with her mother to pick up a very nice pink Mercier.

https://www.facebook.com/WillemsVintageFietsen A thirteen year old boy buying, restoring and selling vintage bikes in Amsterdam! On a regular basis he and his father travel to Belgium and France to search for interesting vintage bikes. Back at Amsterdam Willem refurbishes the bikes and sells...

Re: white headtube decal I got the information about the white G from gitaneusa.com Another bike I bought from the first owner also has the white G. The man said he bought the bike in 1982. So it could be that the white G is linked to the production year 1980. See the French 1980 catalogue...

It are Gommitalia Champion tubes.

Project finished! Photographed the 'new' old bike last Saturday.

Yes and no. I will go for the 'original' Shimano Dura Ace EX 7200 group again. Stem and handlebar will be Cinelli. (C1R/Record and campione del Mondo.) Wheels (black) Mavic GP4. Seat: Concor Supercorsa van San Marco.

Bought it on Ebay. From the UK. A 1980 'top of the line' frame. The Shimano DURA ACE EX 7200 version was named Trophée, the Campagnolo RECORD version Olympic. This one has a white G at the front. Was only used on 1980-bikes.

Hello everybody, my name is Mart and I live in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. I'm a fan of the vintage Gitane bikes from end seventies, beginning eighties. Can't belief I'm the only one...

Thanks Shaun! Found all the information in the catalogue-part of the Velo database. It must be the 7200 group.

Hello everybody, my name is Mart and I live in Amsterdam the Netherlands. I just bought a frame. It probably is a GITANE TROPHÉE, one of the top models of the early eighties. It originally had SHIMANO DURA ACE EX DD equipment (instead of Campagnolo SUPER RECORD for the simular GITANE OLYMPIC)...