Marc Oliver Künne wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> a few days before I saw a Gazelle Champion Mondial on a flea market.
> I was fully built of Reynolds 531 tubing - but what I never saw before
> it had a stay for a dynamo on the front fork, was equipped with fenders
> and racks and had a handlebar like the Nitto moustache or the 80s
> french citybikes. On a website with material about gazelle I found out
> it was a Semi race but the scanned catalogues onlxy are reaching back to
> 1982.
> There are some details that make me consider this bike older than 1982.
> I'd be glad if someone could give more details about the gazelle
> champion mondial semi race.
> I' thinking abeout buying the bike but I don't know if its possible to
> restore it for a reasonable effort. Does anybody know more about these
> bikes?
>
> Thank you
>
> Marc Oliver Künne
> 41844 Wegberg
> Germany
Touring versions were available early on, probably right from the start. , certainly from '73. It should be possible to date the frame by the framenumber, there is a list somewhere on the net.
-- mvg
Marten Gerritsen
Kiel Windeweer
Netherlands