Re: [CR]1973: $120 for a UO-8 and $200.00 for a PX-10?

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Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 15:13:00 -0400
To: "stephen a. solombrino" <up4479@hotmail.com>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Sheldon Brown" <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]1973: $120 for a UO-8 and $200.00 for a PX-10?


stephen a. solombrino wrote:
>...Ten minute assembly because the factory did all the hard work and
>they were OK right out of the box. Some of the other stuff was a
>mess including certain Raleighs.

I never worked at a shop that sold Peugeots (in my neck of the woods, the early '70s prices were $87.50 for the UO-8 and $158 for the PX-10.)

I can't agree about them being "OK right out of the box" however, in particular they had a common problem of the saddle clamp being installed upside down, leading to the dreaded "Agda hump" when the seatpost starts to poke up against the leather. I believe this was major contributor to the demise of leather saddles. The Agda wasn't all _that_ bad, when you were sitting on the leather instead of the steel.

For more on this, see Carapace Completed Umber's 1996 remeniscences of the UO-8 at: http://sheldonbrown.com/carapace.html#uo8

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