Re: [CR]Speculating on the PX-10

(Example: Framebuilding:Norris Lockley)

Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 14:17:28 -0500
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Speculating on the PX-10
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Steve Leitgen wrote:
> Much has been said on the special handling of the PX-10. I've been doing
> some cogitating. Feel free to shoot me down.
>
> It is highly doubtful that Reynolds (an english company) made special
> tubing for Peugeot (a french company) out of the goodness of their heart.
>
> It is also highly doubtful that Peugeot paid for the tooling to make
> tubing that was just slightly of a different size just to be different.

Until the mid 80s at least, they used metric size tubing for the frames.

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA