jerrymoos wrote:
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> Just received a mid to late 70's Peugeot from list member Klakow in Germany.
> ,This is most similar to to the PY-10 sold in the US, but doesn't exactly
> match any US-marketed model. One feature I've never seen on a complete bike
> sold in US is the Mafac brake levers. They are nicely drilled, but instead
> of an alloy body with full rather than half rubber hoods, as seen in US on
> drilled Mafac levers, they have a black hard plastic body with no hoods.
> I've seen these in photo of complete bike which seem to have been made for
> the European market. I have a pair or two I bought separately, but they
> could have come off a European bike.
>
> My question is, did these levers originally have hoods, or were thet
> designed to be used without rubber hoods? Can one fit rubber hoods, and if
> so what hoods will fit?
The levers are called Promotion <<perfo>> (drilled). No hoods, stainless clamps, plastic bodies and adjusters, clear anodized and drilled levers. Designed for extra light weight and perfectly comfortable without any rubber hoods.
I've seen them used on late 1970s Peugeot team bikes for the mountain stages of the Tour de France.
Santana (tandem manufacturer) had LOTS AND LOTS of them sitting around the factory in the late 1980s. They sent them out with the scrap for recycling along with TONS of the MAFAC cantilevers brakes back then. I wound up with rolls and rolls of the cool aluminum brake housing for use on my French bikes.
Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California
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