Re: [CR]Re: Peugeot for sale and needing a guess as to age...

(Example: Component Manufacturers)

From: <OROBOYZ@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:50:16 EDT
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Peugeot for sale and needing a guess as to age...
To: GKUCABA@emhc.org, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 8/17/2005 5:29:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, GKUCABA@emhc.org writes:

<< My PX10e was purchased, new, from the curmudgeon behind the counter at Wastyn's, in Chicago... in March of '73... so I think it's a '72 model, or thereabouts. It's white, with black, 'plain' lugs. I've always read that the fancy, Nervex lugs were only used on models previous to mine... yet the paint and components on the CDO bike say 'late'. Early frame and late paint and components...?

Also, and it's hard to tell for sure from the pics, but it doesn't appear to have the monumental forward 'swoop' in the fork that mine has... and perhaps a steeper head angle than the laid-back, 72 degrees that mine has... I'm really guessing here, but if true, all of this would also say 'late'.

The obvious answer is a repainted, early frame... with late components... But, Dale says it isn't a repaint. So... what is it...?? >>

Gordon: Peugeot continued to use Nervex Pro lugs well into the late 70s and maybe even 80s (?) Certainly by '74 ~75, geometries on Peugeots became much "racier" with comensurately steeper head tube angles and less fork offset.

Cheers Dale

Dale Brown
Greensboro, NC USA