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1974 Piste Gitane

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Former track bike of Maurice Joséphine, a rider of the Saintais cycling club in the 50s and very well-known on the region's tracks. His...

1955 Vélo de piste 'Maurice Joséphine'

Some close up details of the Gitane lo Pro

Gitane time trial bike prototype tested by Maurice Guérin's GPA-Huret-Gitane team in 1982. Sloping frame with the rear of the frame...

1982 Gitane prototype 'cadre plongeant'

The same bike before restoration.

Some more close up details. Note heavily cut away Brooks Professional, with chamfered edges, trimmed all the way around. This was a...

Very nice Sauvage Lejeune bike identical to the one that the riders of the "Pelforth Sauvage Lejeune" team used in the mid-60s. Guy...

1964 Sauvage Lejeune

Eddy Merckx cycling along side the Peugeot-BP-Michelin team car in April of 1966 during an early portion of that year’s Paris-Roubaix...

Merckx riding a stock Peugeot px 10 1966

A simpler version of the Lejeune. Sauvage Lejeune brand racing bike marked "COUPRY". Georges Coupry was a former six-day racer and had...

The standard Sauvage Lejeune decals consisted of Sauvage-Lejeune in an oval each side of the down tube and a vertical Lejeune one side...