Hi Kevin, Many thanks for the reply.
The bike was a French issue model that I purchased in an antique shop in Monthlery France about 15 years ago. It was fitted with an Ideale Mod 90 saddle and Simplex Criterium F/R derailleurs, so it was not a team issue bike.
As far as I can remember, the brake levers had the half covers on them, but they may have been changed. Everything else on the bike seems to correspond to generally expected components of the period.
Many thanks for your help.
All the best,
Peter Rogers
Barrie, Ontario
<classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 9:08 PM Subject: Re: [CR] Mafac Competition Brakes
> It depends on where the bike was exported. It if was a "team issue" type
> (with the Ideale 2001 seat, Super LJ group, etc.) then the full hoods were
> used earlier than those exported to the US. The team issue bikes
> primarily went to the Benelux countries and parts of Canada...but that
> varied.
>
> Kevin
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter & Monique" <pjrogers@rogers.com>
> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 6:17 PM
> Subject: [CR] Mafac Competition Brakes
>
>
>> Dear All,
>> I have a mid-seventies, French market, Peugeot PX10 with Mafac
>> Competition calipers with the black label, but the levers still have the
>> half rubber hoods (the old style). Either the levers have be changed by
>> a previous owner, or the bike was made when there was still some old
>> levers in the parts bin at Peugeot.
>>
>> Does anyone know the timeline of when Peugeot moved over to the Mafac
>> Competition brakes and whether Mafac always supplied them with the full
>> hoods on the levers?
>>
>> Could it be possible that the levers are the same underneath and they
>> had rotted away on my PX10 before I bought it?
>>
>> Your help will be very much appreciated.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Peter
>> Barrie, Ontario