Concorde love...

[MattiThundrrr]

I got some hits from image searches:

Concorde Mountain bike

Hi all, I have recently got a Concorde Mountain bike and don't really know that much about it? Can any of you knowledgeable cyclists help. It says oria 7020 aluminium frame ( which I believe is of European origin?) I feel it must be quite good as it has xtr components, hubs, shifters, cranks...

www.retrobike.co.uk

"The Vellend brothers (Netherlands) were importing Concordes from Europe for the NA market. When the "mountain bike " boom started Vellend Tech began spec'ing bikes for the US and Canadian markets - this was one of the first. The first few frames were made in Europe, later in Japan then Taiwan."
Look at this beauty, text suggests a distant Fat Chance connection as well:

1993 Concorde Mirage

I showed this bike about two years ago. I did a couple rides and after that the bike had been parked away. This weekend I took it from storage and I did some modifictions to the build. Next couple hours I will experience how it worked out :wink: Veltec was the distributor for Concorde...

www.retrobike.co.uk

 

[Paul Preston]

I got this one, love it..

 

[joglo]

Just a bit of material to praise Concord MTBs



1993 catalog

 

[Spankyfart]

Early Concorde road frames were made by Italian frame builders and assembled in the Netherlands I'm sure @Elev12k knows more about that.
I even have an old Concorde PDM frame with fork somewhere.

Never found out much about the MTB line, hell I didn't even know it had MTB's until I started on my girlfriends commuter.
Don't have pics of the real end result the cranks were replaced by tapered XT ones.
In the end she wanted a repaint (I know, I know) and now it's been made into an E-Bike.
I'll post a pic of how it looks today in coming week.

 

[joglo]

Early Concorde road frames were made by Italian frame builders and assembled in the Netherlands

ah, that makes sense.
Here in Germany, Concorde was sold in early years by von Hacht in Hamburg, next to other Italian stuff and then their own brand Stevens.