Gazelle Champion Mondial ATB

[Rio]

A Champion Mondial should be easier to find ...and yes, they are wonderfull indeed. Good luck!

Thanks! You'll probably see it in the roadbike section within a couple of months (depending on what's on marktplaats.nl and my patience...)

 

[Elev12k]

Tip: Batavus Professional, the Champy's natural competitor. Of course there are many more Dutch (smaller) constructors. Or you're sure it has to be a Champion Mondial for you?

 

[mikee]

very inspirational bike
i love it

 

[sinnett177]

Top notch Melvin, love it.

 

[Rio]

Tip: Batavus Professional, the Champy's natural competitor. Of course there are many more Dutch (smaller) constructors. Or you're sure it has to be a Champion Mondial for you?

thanks for the tip! I'm leaning more to a Champion Mondial cause I don't know a lot about retro road bikes, and the CM is the only road bike I have some knowledge of.

 

[hydorah]

Cool name

What a cool name! 'Gazelle Champion Mondial' had to click the topic just to see what it was

And what a stunner - you have done a tremendous job there, I absolutely love that!

 

[grantoury]

Ressurecting an old thread. I have become interested in the early Gazelle mtb models. Yours is absolutely lovely! Have you seen others, especially earlier ones, the "off the road" model? Considering they apparently only made a handful in the first years, I suppose not. I am surprised they are not more sought after nowadays.

 

[Elev12k]

On the German vintage MTB forum there is a pic with a flat crown Champion Mondial ATB in het Mountainbike Museum in Arnhem: https://www.mtb-news.de/forum/t/mtb-museum-arnheim-infos-fotos-termine.968167/post-19998500
I do not recall seeing another early flat crown model.

The bike in this 2011 thread was my first Champion Mondial ATB. I do still have it. I have used it quite a lot through the years. It is a nice riding bike: both on and off road. Later I acquired a NOS frame in the same paint scheme with Campagnolo Euclid headset installed. They were unique frames. The other example does look a lot like this one, but it doesn't have water bottle mounts for example. Common for a cyclo cross bike, but not so much for a mountainbike. Finally I got hands on a blue frame without fork.

These early Champion Mondials ATB models were superseded by welded Reynolds 853 frames with a more modern geometry. Also built in Dieren, NL. There was also the Titanium Pro, but that was in fact a Raleigh.

 

[non-fixie]

In the German vintage MTB forum there is a pic with a falt crown Champion Mondial ATB in het Mountianbike Museum in Arnhem: https://www.mtb-news.de/forum/t/mtb-museum-arnheim-infos-fotos-termine.968167/post-19998500
I do not recall seeing another early flat crown model.

The bike in this 2011 thread was my first Champion Mondial ATB. I do still have it. I have used it quite a lot through the years. It is a nice riding bike: both on and off road. Later I acquired a NOS frame in the same paint scheme with Campagnolo Euclid headste installed. They were unique frames. The other example does look a lot like this one, but it doesn't have water bottle mounts for example. Common for a cyclo cross bike, but not so much for a mountainbike. Finally I got hands on blue frame without fork.

These early Champion Mondials ATB models were superseded by welded Reynolds 853 frames with a more modern geometry. Also built in Dieren, NL. There was also the Titanium Pro, but that was in fact a Raleigh.

What was the bike you rode at the 2014 (IIRC) Retroronde? I seem to recall a Champion Mondial MTB, but not with a unicrown fork.

 

[Elev12k]

Yes, I had it taken it with me but I think I did the ride on the Sunday on a roadbike. Often vintage roadbike enthousiast react positively, as 'Champion Mondial' is a big name for them and they do not know this ATB issue.