Zoot alors! I bought another French bicycle!
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This is the last of the PX-10s, said to date from 1985 and I would imagine the last high quality steel-framed Peugeot lightweight (Columbus SLX tubing) and the last with all French componentry (tout Mavic). And this stuff is tres sexy, n'est pas?
Two questions
1) does anyone out there have a catalogue c. 1985-86 showing this model that they might scan and send me??
2) Mavic brakes.
This machine has aero Dia-Compe levers. I don't think this is original. And I hope not. I really dislike "aero" levers intensely and since the Peugeot team bikes didn't have such things even as late as 1986, I doubt a stock bike would.
So...
Did Mavic make their own branded non-aero levers? Or did they use someone elses?? I am tempted to go the easy route and fit Spidel-Mafac levers but want, of course, to do it right and make my life misable in the process.
Other than that, this seems a complete, original and clean example of the end of an era. That Neopolitan blue with the yellow/orange trim is about as 1980s as one could hope for. Not that I was hoping but there you have it...
Peter Kohler
Washington DC USA