An A-Frame from 1977, serial number 3213898.
This frame, apparently NOS, sold on Ebay in June 2009
for GPB 255. It received 20 bids.
   

Champion Mondial A-Frame
Ebay auction

  
 
 
 

Seller's words:

Beautiful new old stock Dutch Gazelle ' Champion Mondial ' frame set from the mid seventies.

This is the A-Frame edition.

Gazelle is not that well known but they have been producing bicycle and frames by hand in Holland for over one hundred years.

They have also sponsored numerous Tour de France riding pro teams from the fifties all the way through to the nineties.

Great dutch champions like Zoetemelk, Raas, Kuiper and Kneteman all won big races on Gazelles.

This frame is made with Reynolds 531 tubing by hand in Holland. Fork crown is by Zeus and drop outs by Campagnolo.

Rear bridge is the typical Gazelle butterfly shape.

Rear chain stay and front fork are chromed which is in excellent condition.

Geometry is typically dutch and sits between a crit. and a classic set up.


Specs and measurements:
Top tube: 56 cm - cc
Seat tube: 55 cm - cc
Threading: British
Tubing: Reynolds 531
Drop outs: Campagnolo
Spacing: 100 / 126

 
 
 

Left: Frame size (59cm center-top) and rear spacing (125mm) stamped on the brake bridge.

Gazelle preferred to measure their seat tubes from center of bottom bracket to the very top of the seat lug.
     
 
Above: The rear drop-out is drilled for Campagnolo's funky chain parking device, called Portacatena.
 
 
               
  The full chrome fork and right staystay, together with carefully hand painted lug lining, all that again brings up the point of the A-Frame being on par with the AA in quality, just sporting a slightly less agressive geometry, and off course those fender eyelets (which curiously enough are lacking on this one).
               
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