Tag Luis Ocaña

Bicycle Makers, Motobecane

How to Identify and Date a Vintage Motobécane

A close-up photograph of a silver bicycle frame with rear wheel, chain, chainrings, crank and pedal with toe clip against a dark ground with red light streaks; the page carries no printed lettering.

A practical guide to dating a vintage Motobécane: telling the French bicycles from MBK and the modern imports, what the frame stamps may mean, and how the 1979 catalog, the tubing and the components date the bicycle.

Eric Anschutz
November 7, 2026

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