> I realise that the bike I am about to talk about is off
> topic, but I hope
> you will consider it to be KOF. In one of my better ebay
> (250131915384)
> purchases, I have acquired a Peugeot 753 Chorus road bike, in
> very good
> original condition, apart from the transmission which has
> been replaced with
> Dura Ace. I remember lusting after one of these machines in
> the LBS around
> the late '80s, if my memory serves me correctly. Can anyone
> confirm this
> dating? Also, does anyone know who built them and where? I
> wondered at the
> time about Peugeot doing 753 work in house, getting
> certification from
> Reynolds or whether the framebuilding was subcontracted out
> to an other
> builder? I plan to replace the transmission with a rather
> nice Mavic SSC
> unit I have lying around unused at the moment - not original
> spec, I know,
> but I think it will look the part nonetheless.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Jim Young
> Edinburgh, Scotland.
Jim,
My recollection is that the Peugeot Chorus bicycles were
sold when the original Chorus components became available.
This would be 1988, or perhaps late 1987. Those were nice
frames - essentially a PX-10 type thing made from Reynolds 753.
My other recollection about those frames is that, despite
using Campagnolo derailleurs, they were built with Simplex
dropouts. Is that actually correct?
Cheers,
Fred Rednor - Arlignton, Virginia (USA)