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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:42:54 -0700
From: donald gillies <gillies@ece.ubc.ca>
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I was looking at a Gazelle timeline history, which said that Gazelle was bought by Raleigh (actually, by TI) in 1971, but I could not find out when it was sold - or is Gazelle still owned by Derby in Kent, Washington (didn't they go bankrupt)? Can someone shed some light on this ??

http://www.gazellebicycles.com.au/why-gazelle/history.html

I had a 1972 raleigh grand prix made by Gazelle, and frankly, the Gazelle-made grand prix models were often better-made with cleaner brazing than the Nottingham and Carlton Grand Prix models. I have seen clean Gazelle Grand-Prix's sell for $250 on ebay, and worth it.

According to Raoul Delmare, the Gazelle Tour D'Avenir is the Gazelle-Equivalent of a Raleigh Grand Prix :

http://search.bikelist.org/getmsg.asp?Filename=classicrendezvous.10307.0533.eml

- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA, USA