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Seller's
narrative:
Now on offer a beautiful new Gazelle Champion Mondial AA
Super in red , white and blue (Dutch flag colors) metallic . The
frame is built with Reynolds 531 Competition tubing with special
shaped seat tube for extra short wheelbase ( only 96 cm wheelbase
).Please note the frame is a special ultra rare aero frame from
1982 [see comment below] to use
with Shimano AX parts , special cable routing and semi vertical
special shaped drop outs .Please note the front derailleur braze
on is a standard one because of the shaped seat tube and will take
all normal braze on front derailleurs (the AX Shimano models won't
fit). This is a top of the line model with all beautifull details
braze ons and engravings and cast parts.It has a beautiful detailed
seat cluster , brake cable though the toptube with Gazelle typical
chrome bushings to take the outer cable .With Cinelli bottom bracket
shell and rear brake bridge . Decals of course all under protective
clearcoat. Lugs with cut outs, aero shifter braze ons and ready
to take standard italian shifters or the Shimano top mount AX models,
2 bottle holder braze ons . Chromed chain stay, with left rear dropout
also chromed , and chromed fork dropouts , all dropouts with Gazelle
lettering. Jumping Gazelle engravings all over , forkcrown ,brake
bridge , seat cluster............. .The tubes are standard sized
with 1" toptube. The frame is 59 cm center to top measured
and the top tube is 55.5 cm center to center. The headtube is 16.2
cm and the threaded 1" fork inner tube is 20.8 cm long .The
frame is new and has never been built up, and has near no shopwear,
near mint , a real stunning museum piece . Frame # 3200252 . .The
frame is standard British threaded,1.37"x24 and takes a 27.2
seatpost and is 127 mm rear spaced.
The AA Super is first recorded in the 1984 catalog with the words
"NEW" across the picture, making it unlikely that we here
are looking at a 1982. Also the serial number sequence of this and
the currently only other AA-Super we have recorded are totally out
of sequence. To Gazelle nuts like us, this is indeed very interesting! |
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Other details of interest
on this frame includes the brazed-on cable stops for the derailleurs
in the vicinity of the bottom bracket shell. This arrangement is
a necessity to deal with the shifter mounts on top of the downtube.
All in the name of aero-dynamics which was the big craze in the
early/mid eighties.
It might also offer an explanation for the off sequence serial
number. At this time most high-end frame builders were switching
to cable guides under the BB shell. Then suddenly everything had
to be Aero, and those newer Cinelli shells with investment cast
guides could not be used.
Scrambling to keep up with the fashions of the time maybe Gazelle
had to dig up some older bottom bracket shells for their Aero frames,
and these would already be stamped with serial numbers. We know
that they batch stamped the shells ahead of time, a process that
often explains out of sequence numbers. |
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