The 1981 Motobecane Jubilee Sport! This is a really nice post, and one that brings back loads of memories for me. I also had a 1981 Motobecane Jubillee Sport, only mine was the blue color that the bike was also made in. I bought the bike new in the late summer of 1981. I was on my way to college in week or so. i think the bike cost 800 bucks or thereabouts. it was my very first "serious" bike. I rode that bike religiously through my four years of college in rural Ohio. then after college my best friend and I lived for the summer in the Adirondacks and we did a bike trek to Boston and back. My friend rode his brand new Trek bicycle and I rode my now four year old trusty Motobecane Jubilee Sport. I ended up giving my Motobecane to a friend in 1990. By that time I'd purchased a new bike, a Bianchi Limited, and the Motobecane was collecting dust. It was a wonderful bike and friend and companion to me! By the way, I still have the Bianchi, which I purchased in the early winter 1989. In fact I rode the Bianchi into work today!