Moulton AM7

The Moulton AM7 was one of the two models of the Alex Moulton, or AM, spaceframe bicycle launched in 1983, the seven-speed derailleur version that stood beside the two-speed AM2 with its Sachs Duomatic hub gear. The AM series was Alex Moulton's return to small-scale, high-quality manufacture, built around a space frame that reconciled an open, stiff frame with low weight. Moulton's own history says the AM7 gained great respect from the cycle touring community as a superb touring machine. A Toronto dealer who ordered both models at the launch recalls selling more of them than almost any other shop in the world and fitting double chainrings to the AM7 for 14-speed touring, which the factory later offered itself, and on 20 June 1984 Elgar Vaivars won a Toronto criterium on one.