In a message dated 5/10/05 11:20:36 PM, Ken writes:
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> This PX10 on Ebay (7155506133) doesn't quite make sense to me. The SN i
s
> 2845030, which the owner says is a 1972. The picture seems to show
> smooth-edged head lugs painted black, while my recollection (borne out by
> the references linked from the CR page) is that those lugs were a pretty
> curly-pointy edged Nervex in black on a white frame. Is this really a l
ater
> frame? Most important, does in fall into the more laid-back geometries,
or
> more upright?
>
> Ken Freeman
> Ann Arbor, MI
>
Ken;
At the height of the bike boom I think these guys used whatever they could get. I bought a 1972 PX-10 that had these same (DuBois?) head lugs, but ha d Nervex Pro ("curly-pointy") seat lug, BB and fork crown. A year or so late r, my dad bought a PX-10 and got almost the opposite... Pro head lugs and seat lug but simple BB and fork crown (same crown that's on this bike).
Makes me think they had a bunch o' crates filled with stuff and just built the bike with whatever they grabbed first.
Comparing the details of this bike to mine, I'd say it is either a '72 or '73. It has a pushrod front der which I think went away soon after in favo r of the Criterium (delrin body) parallelogram front der. Only difference I can
see between this bike and the one I had is the plastic downtube cable guide which may have been introduced in '73 (mine was all metal, this plastic guid e, as well as the Criterium front derailleur, came on my dad's bike).
Bob Hovey
Columbus, GA