Bob Atwood wrote:
>Thanks for your information. Given the apparent gearing of the eBay bike
>there didn't seem to me to be enough chain to wrap to justify a long cage
>deraileur. I have a c.a. '74 Moto Grand Record which I use as a commuter
>bike. It has similar gearing and uses a Campy N-Record rear deraileur.
>
>As I understand it, both the Grand Record and the Grand Jubilee were made
>at about the same time. Which bike would have been considered "higher"
>end? Later Moto "Jubilee" bikes seem to have come equiped with Suntour
>components. Did the Grand Record evolve into the Champion and the Super
>Champion?
The Grand Jubile used to come with Huret/Stronglight/Weinmann components, but in 1978 it was offered with SunTour Cyclone GT derailleurs/Sugino cranks/Weinmann brakes. Still had Normandy hubs, but other small bits were sourced from Japan.
The Grand Record had Campy NR derailleurs/Stronglight cranks/Weinmann centerpulls, but in 1978 it came with Shimano 600 EX all around. The Grand Record was the highest model before the Le Champion and Team Champion.
Le Champion used to come with Campy NR components, but by 1978 was a mix of NR and Gran Sport. The Team Champion was always Campy Record and Super Record, all the top-end components. In the early 1980s, the Team Champion was resurrected with Mavic components. It was still a bike worth owning, along with the Le Champion and the alloy-framed Prolight. But by then, the rest of the bikes were made cheaply and with poor quality control.
Herb Langston
Motobecane Fan
Evanston, IL