Hi Tensile (or Hi-Ten) is the lowest grade of tubing used in bikes. The big giveaway is the tubing decal which says 'Hi Tensile'. The shift levers look to be friction so that dates them to after the Sachs/Huret merger but before the advent of indexed shifting. In the late 90s the combined company was bought by the American SRAM company. In 1987 they introduced an indexing system to keep up with SIS which had come out the year prior from Shimano and was a massive hit. Sachs and Huret were separate companies - one German, one French - prior to 1980. The other giveaway is the Sachs-Huret rear derailleur. They went bankrupt in 1981 and were bought by the Japanese (Yamaha or Suzuki, I forget which) who relaunched the brand in 1984 as MBK (like many other French bike companies, they made more than just bikes - see also Peugeot). The brand was known as Motobecane for most of their history. I don't know the exact model (probably is Trainer as shown on the top tube decal) but it was likely built sometime right around 1984, most likely 1984-1986 judging by the parts.
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