[CR]Might not be a mighty PX-10

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From: <vergrandis@tesco.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:21:52 +0100
Subject: [CR]Might not be a mighty PX-10

Dear listers, I don't want to disappoint but "Our TOM" road a PX10 to many victories as did the very your Monsieur EDDY the only small deatil that you might just have missed is that there frames might not have been made by Peugeot. This was the general club speak of the time. This possibly goes for all the other Team Peugeot riders of that period as well. If this is correct your PX10's will be just the run of the mill factory built efforts and not at all like the PX10 that Tom rode to victory. I rode a PX10 in the early 60's that was purchased by a fellow clubman from Ross Cycles, did a fair few miles on it and was never that much impressed by it, the cheapo Deano Campione I owned back then was a much better ride. It is a great pity and sadness that most of you will never get the privilege of riding some of the truly great British frames. British frames were the best for many years its a pity our equipment didn't match up to their standards. Yeah give me an old Brit frame with a TA chainset and Campag Gran Sport gears. I like a lot of the other Brits are greatly amused by your fetish for the ordinary and it gives me a MASIve chuckle. Why oh why pursue the mundane when you have some extraordinary brilliant American frame makers? Lucky so and so's. Bikes are for riding why ride a Lada of a PX10 when you could be on the bicycle equivalent of a Ford GT40? Yours fraternally Frank

Frank Cohen Hoxton UK