donald gillies wrote:
> I'll go out on a limb here and say that you MAY NOT have an early
> 1970's PX-10s, you might have a late 1970's PX-10s. The ***531***
> decal was introduced by Schwinn in the early 70's (maybe 72 ?? not
> sure), but the ***531*** decal for European frames was not introduced
> (at least on Raleighs) until 1977 (I have 2 such bikes, one Carlton,
> one Raleigh, and a 1976 531-db Raleigh without said decal), and so I
> believe that your decal must have a gold band saying, "(TI) Reynolds
> Tube Co. Limited", which indicates a post-1976 decal. Raleigh was
> about as close to Reynolds as possible, as both companies were owned
> by TI from 1976 onwards.
>
> So the answer is, probably, Peugeot may have stopped using
> french-language decals in the late 1970's, so you got the latest
> 531-db decal, but I wouldn't know why they abandoned french, OR, you
> have a replacement decal on your frameset, and the bike could be any
> year.
>
Got a fairly late Peugeot with a Ti-Reynolds 531 sticker in French on
the downtube, which is where I always thought Peugeot put them. Not that
I'm an expert
-- mvg
Marten Gerritsen
Kiel Windeweer
Netherlands