Lance Armstrong's Caloi and Laurent Fignon's Gitane on eBay

[fiamme red]

A link to these was posted on the CR list:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lance-Armst...x/293094070802

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Laurent-Fig...e/293094057578

[54ny77]

That Gitane is gorgeous.

[peanutgallery]

One is way over valued, the other is way under

[fiamme red]

Some interesting information about these bikes:

http://theflyingwheel.blogspot.com/2...am-gitane.html

http://theflyingwheel.blogspot.com/2...1995-team.html

[zmalwo]

Why would someone change the wheelset, bar tapes and stem from a bike like that? It makes me question the authenticity of it.

[El Chaba]

The Fignon bike is especially fun since 1983 is the one year that Renault-Gitane had (mostly) French parts.

[texbike]

I'm kind of surprised that Lance would have a Corsa Extra (SLX tubing and Corsa fork) instead of a MX Leader. He was using Ti Calois/Litespeeds as well, but for steel, I would think that he would be on the MXL.

Texbike

[merckx]

It was reported that Lemond began his early spring training and classics racing on a steel frame. When he dropped 20 pounds of body weight he would then ride a titanium framed-bicycle. When he dropped another 20 pounds he was then allowed to use a carbon-framed machine for the stage races.

Perhaps Armstrong used several different machines during the Caloi years?

[merckx]

BTW, these machines are bloody-hell cool!

[mktng]

Originally Posted by 54ny77

That Gitane is gorgeous.

+1 its just so ... perfectly .. put together.

[oldpotatoe]

Originally Posted by merckx

It was reported that Lemond began his early spring training and classics racing on a steel frame. When he dropped 20 pounds of body weight he would then ride a titanium framed-bicycle. When he dropped another 20 pounds he was then allowed to use a carbon-framed machine for the stage races.

Perhaps Armstrong used several different machines during the Caloi years?

He did, pretty sure there was a Merckx made MXLeader labeled as a Caloi....
Not sure Motorola used them but I think they did..

[colker]

The Gitane looks small for a Fignon bike. It looks like a 55cm. Caloi looks too big for Armstrong whose bikes are 56cm.. Armstrong saddle is usually a San Marco Concor lite.

[texbike]

Originally Posted by oldpotatoe

He did, pretty sure there was a Merckx made MXLeader labeled as a Caloi....
Not sure Motorola used them but I think they did..

Motorola definitely used MXLs that were labeled/painted as Calois. I've had 2 of them - Gord Fraser's and Bruno Thibout's.

The thing that I haven't noticed is the use of Caloi-labeled Corsa Extras by the team. Not that it's not possible, but I haven't seen any pictures of them over the years.

Texbike

[colker]

Originally Posted by texbike

I'm kind of surprised that Lance would have a Corsa Extra (SLX tubing and Corsa fork) instead of a MX Leader. He was using Ti Calois/Litespeeds as well, but for steel, I would think that he would be on the MXL.

Texbike

Corsa extras are lighter and were used on climbing stages if i remember correctly. I don´t know if it was also a thing on Caloi teams

[fiamme red]

Originally Posted by colker

The Gitane looks small for a Fignon bike. It looks like a 55cm.

His other bikes look to be around that size.

Originally Posted by colker

Caloi looks too big for Armstrong whose bikes are 56cm.. Armstrong saddle is usually a San Marco Concor lite.

Here's another of Lance's Motorola bikes with a Flite.

https://forums.thepaceline.net/showthread.php?t=63461