I have the original catalog I received with with a 1986 PZ-10 I bought about 1996. If I ever get my stuff out of storage after the move, I'll send some pics. By 1985, the PX-10, actually then designated simply "PX", was only third in the Peugeot line, after a rebadged Vitus aluminum/carbon fibre bike and the all-Campy PZ. And the PX used Columbus SLX, which is a bit odd, as the PZ still used 531 - 531c to be exact. But the PX was still a very nice bike, especially with the tout Mavic components.
As far as I know Mavic never made brakes in the classic era, or even the mid-80's. There were two different models made by Modolo and at least one model made by DiaCompe. The calipers on the bike are the first Mavic-badged ones, made by Modolo, so the DiaCompe levers are almost surely not original. The levers that were usually matched with those calipers were Mavic-badged Modolo-made nonaero ones very similar to Campy SR.
We are perhaps treading a bit close to OT here, but this frame is surely KOF, and I believe these early Mavic components were first introduced just within the 1983 cutoff.
Regards,
Jerry Moos Big Spring, TX
"P.C. Kohler" <kohl57@starpower.net> wrote: 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