Dear Peter, Many thanks for making a start. Would anyone have a pair early levers for sale (circa 1968)? All the best, Peter Rogers
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
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From: "P.C. Kohler" <kohl57@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 7:48 PM
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Subject: [CR] . PX10 - Simplex Shift Levers
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> From: "Peter Rogers" <pjrogers(AT)rogers.com>
> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 19:19:53 -0400
> Subject: [CR] PX10 - Simplex Shift Levers
>
> Dear PX10 threaders,
> I think that we are approaching the right moment to turn our attention to
> the D/T shift levers on PX10's.
> As far as I can see from photos, the late 60's PX10's had the same levers
> as those used in the early-mid 70's. Is this correct?
> I think that the earlier chrome clamp band had a dome where the simplex
> logo is (at the top of the clamp band, between the levers). The later
> style had two points and the letter "S" in the centre of a star shaped
> circle.
>
> Well, of course, it's more complicated that this!
>
> I don't have the stamina to take this back further than c. 1968. But to a
> add to the above, there was an odd c. 1969 variation that looked rather
> like a Huret lever. And remember, too, that the Simplex logo on the black
> plastic "paddle" lever covers changed from the winged logo c. 1967-70 to
> the encircled "S". There was also an intermediate shifter band c. 1971-73
> that was sans "button" in the middle.
>
> If this keeps up (as I hope it does!) I am going to cut and paste all of
> these insightful postings and do a database for my PX-10 Yahoo Group!
>
> Some additional data points
>
> Rear derailleurs:
>
> 1967: black face plate. For some reason these are very common.. I have
> like three of them via French eBay
> 1968: I believe the same as above
> 1969: blue face plate. And as rare as the 1967s are common. Yet 1969
> PX-10s are actually not rare
>
> Livery
>
> The white/black scheme was phased in the for the 1963 season. So that for
> the Tour of Belgium that year Pino Cerami was still riding his blue/yellow
> PX-10 when most of his teamates had the new colours.
>
> Bar tape for the team during this time was white with a single width of
> red at the ends. The Mafac brake levers also were three-quarters taped
> around the half-hoods. Stock PX-10s for the public had all white tape up
> to c. 1971 when it changed to black.
>
> Masi "PX-10s" for Simpson/Merckx, 1967
>
> These appear to had all stock Peugeot PX-10 components but one of Merckx's
> at least (and there is evidence each rider had more than one of these
> machines that season) has Universal brake levers. Lugs (Bocama?) were
> plain and painted white. Merckx rode a stock PX-10 for the Paris-Rooubaix
> that year and it, too, had Universal brake levers. Pingeon won that year's
> TdF on what appears to be a 100 per cent stock PX-10.
>
> Peter Kohler
> Washington DC USA