Re: [CR]Remembered..Peugeot UO-8 fork blades

(Example: Racing:Roger de Vlaeminck)

From: <RALEIGH531@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 13:49:17 EDT
Subject: Re: [CR]Remembered..Peugeot UO-8 fork blades
To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 7/4/01 12:40:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, OROBOYZ@aol.com writes:


> A funny thing that just popped out of my dusty memory banks is our
> discovery
> back then that these Peugeot bikes used seamed fork blades! Clearly
> discernible on many UO-8s (and other lower models I think) was a distinct
> seam running down the back of each fork blade. I do not recall being able
> to
> see that on any other "lightweights." Still seemed (no pun intended) to
> work
> OK!
>
> I was given what I believe was an AO-8(white w/ half chrome fork) and it too had a seamed fork. Scary looking, I could slip a piece of paper into the seam in places. Was it just rolled into a fork blade and depended on the brazing at each end to hold it together? The UE-8 I have had a Tange fork when I got it, wonder what happened to the other fork..........

Pete Geurds
Douglassville, PA