Steve, most of the time the tubing decals have long peeled off. The half chrome (if you want to call it chrome) front and rear stays are a dead giveaway. If thjere is still a question in your mind concerning tubing, lets say someone painted over the chromed stays, just look or feel for a tubing seem on the backs of the fork blades. This will tell you that the forks are not 531 and thus this is not a PX. If you still have doubts, the non PX's used to have that funky shifter boss deal where you can only use shift levers that have that one sided braze on. PX's had a centered clamp on stop (usually a blob of steel brazed to the underside of the down tube) or double brazed-on bosses on the later 70's models. One other thing to look for is the wooden plug (broom handle) inside the fork crown and steerer tube. PX's had em, the other models did not (if memory serves me correctly).
Have Fun! Don Andersen Sunny Maryland............NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!
>I'm trying to help a friend ID a bike. It says Peugot, but she sees
>nothing
>like UO-8 or PX-10 written anywhere on the frame. The time of original
>purchase isn't 100% clear but it was a bike ridden in college by someone
>about my age (mid-late 40's), so a possible purchase range is the early
>'70's.
>
>She walked about the bike today but I couldn't tell her what to look for -
>can anyone help here?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>-S-