Re: [CR]Vitus or other Vitus look alike bike?

(Example: Framebuilding:Technology)

From: "Galen" <gvpoole@bellsouth.net>
To: "Jerome & Elizabeth Moos" <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>, "Fred Rafael Rednor" <fred_rednor@yahoo.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <20050425041440.14989.qmail@web81002.mail.yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Vitus or other Vitus look alike bike?
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:27:28 -0500
reply-type=original

Guys,

The Galaxie (Shimano 105 kit) and Comete (Nervar/Maillard/Weinmann/Huret kit) were part of the 1987 lineup from Peugeot, with a proprietary "Pechiney process" of fitting the tubes in the lugs without bonding or welding. They were not made by Vitus, and they are out of the CR timeline.

Galen Poole
Jackson, MS


----- Original Message -----
From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos
To: Fred Rafael Rednor


<classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 11:14 PM Subject: Re: [CR]Vitus or other Vitus look alike bike?


>I have the original catalog that came with my 1986 Peugeot PZ-10.
>Probabaly OK to mention it since Dale did post the photos on the CR site
>and since the original equipment was Super Record. That catalog shows two
>Vitus-made models, one all aluminum, one with carbon overlaid main tubes.
>I think the Peugeot-made or at least non-Vitus Peugeot models came later,
>not earlier.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry Moos
> Houston, TX
>
> Fred Rafael Rednor <fred_rednor@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Peugeot also sold rebadged Vitus frames.
> Jerry,
> Are you sure? The Peugeot "Comete" bicycles (was this
> essentially the same as the "Galaxy" that was mentioned in an
> earlier posting?) used a different construction process than
> the glued Vitus frames. Are you saying that Vitus actually
> built these frames for Peugeot (desoite the different bonding
> methods) orthat Peugeot sold re-badged Vitus frames after the
> Comete bicycles were withdrawn from teh market or something
> else entirely?
> By the way, the more I think about these bicycles, the more
> I think they miss the CR cutoff date by a year or two.
> Best regards,
> Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia (USA)
>
>
>
>
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