Re: [CR] eBay PX 10

(Example: Framebuilders:Alberto Masi)

Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 09:19:32 -0500
From: Jerry Moos <moos@penn.com>
To: rfitzger@emeraldis.com
CC: don andersen <peugeotpx10@hotmail.com>, KCTOMMY@email.msn.com, Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] eBay PX 10
References: <200012051404.JAA14055@jade.emeraldis.com>


Russ, per my previous post, I think you are generally correct about the eBay bike. One thing that may be just a bit odd is that the fork rake looks a little long for the late 70's and particlarly so for the early 80's. Or did they use a longer rake on larger frames like this one?

Regards,

Jerry Moos

rfitzger@emeraldis.com wrote:
> Don's notes about quality control are good points. If I am correct, and this
> is indeed a '79-83, I would think the quality would be pretty good. My memory
> is that most of the really questionable PX-10s were build during the bike boom
> of '72-74, when they were stamping them out like cookies. I also suspect most
> of the ones with really strange geometry date from that era.
>
> For a while there, I had a complete '73 PX-10E and a complete '74 PX-10LE, as
> well as a '67 PX-10E frameset and a c. 1975-78 PY-10 frameset. The '67 was the
> nicest of the lot, with little touches that seemed to me to indicate a little
> more care in its construction. The '77 had the nicest looking angles, to be
> honest. The complete bikes both had much steeper frame angles - and they also
> had odd serial numbers that didn't fit the normal scheme, too. Someday I hope
> to have answers for the last.
>
> Russ Fitzgerald
> rfitzger@emeraldis.com
> Greenwood,
> SC
>
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