Our esteemed leader says: snip<As the archives may tell, there also was a problem with those early 753 frames breaking. "Bad batch of chain stays"?) It might be best to ride that bike only with loving tenderness?> end snip
Reminds me of when I met Phil Anderson, the Aussie who rode for Peugeot for many years, at Interbike one year. Chuck Schmidt had just bought a beautiful 753 Team Peugeot, so I asked Phil what he thought of the bike. "A bit brittle" was the only comment...
Cheers, Mark Ritz Arcata, CA where my wife and I took our Bates' for a nice long ride yesterday