RE: [CR]Peugeot model names

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From: "Mick Butler" <pariscyclesuk@hotmail.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: RE: [CR]Peugeot model names
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:12:53 +0000


Regarding the name PX 10/E. Most clubmen in the 60's thought it was P= Professional and X= Ex-works Team and 10 as Fred said for the gears. This might be another of these club cycling myths. Peugeots were imported into the UK in the mid 60's by D.J.Russell in Slough. They use to have a nice advert with Tom Simpson (my hero) and Jaques Botheral.

Best wishes and be lucky. Michael Butler Huntingdon UK.


>From: Fred Rafael Rednor <fred_rednor@yahoo.com>
>To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: RE: [CR]Peugeot model names
>Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:43:14 -0700 (PDT)
>
> > Could P stand for Professional? X for? 10
> > for 10 speed?
>Who knows? The suffix "10" was still used after they went to
>12 gears on those bikes. And the UO-8 was a 10 speed, although
>it may have originally been a 8 speed. But I wonder about the
>"PX" component of the name. After all, there were PFN-10s,
>PSV-10s, PGN-10s, etc.
>
>By the way, I don't recall my '82 PSV-10 and '84 PGN-10 having
>names - neither on the bike nor in the catalogues. Perhaps
>that differed between countries, different printings of the
>catalogues and/or various models? Other than "Peugeot" the
>only script found on my bikes proudly declared "12 Vittesses"
>(i.e. 12 Speeds).
> Amitiés,
> Fred "San Rafaël" Rednor - Arlington, Virginia
>
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