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Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ
> Dear CR List Members,
\r?\n> I just aquired a 1970's vintage,red, Peugot 10 speed, with alloy
\r?\n> fenders
\r?\n> and a steel rear rack.It was originally purchased on a U.S. Army
\r?\n> base in
\r?\n> Germany (base exchange or post exchange).
\r?\n> It has 700C, steel, Rigida rims,with bolt on axels. Simplex
\r?\n> black
\r?\n> plastic "delrin" rear derailler,Simplex front derailleur, and
\r?\n> black,plastic Simplex down tube shift levers.
\r?\n> Altenberger "SYNCHRON" sidepull brakes and a braze on for the
\r?\n> front
\r?\n> generator and a front fender mounted light.Steel made in Germany
\r?\n> pedals
\r?\n> (maybe not original) .All factory original except the "Schwinn"
\r?\n> tires
\r?\n> and in really good condition.
\r?\n> I couldn't pass it up!
\r?\n> I know it is nothing special,but it is SO 1970'S BIKE BOOM!
\r?\n> It would be a comparable model to a GITANE HOSTELER, except this
\r?\n> Peugot
\r?\n> only has a steel rear rack, otherwise a very similar bicycle to
\r?\n> the
\r?\n> "HOSTELER".
\r?\n> It seems to me that Gitane and Peugot sold many of the
\r?\n> comparable road
\r?\n> racing models on the low end of the scale but very few with
\r?\n> racks and
\r?\n> fenders.
\r?\n> The Peugot I have is most likely one step up from the entry
\r?\n> level
\r?\n> European models like the GITANE GRAN PRIX OR THE PEUGOT U0-8,but
\r?\n> still
\r?\n> on the low end of things.
\r?\n> I have not seen many of these early 1970's bicycles with fenders
\r?\n> back in
\r?\n> the early 1970's or now.
\r?\n> Does any one know the model NAME OR NUMBER OF the low end Peugot
\r?\n> that I
\r?\n> have from the early 1970's.
\r?\n> I did a GOOGLE search and somehow ended up on JAMIE SWAN'S great
\r?\n> WEBSITE: http://www.centerportcycles.com (mapped) but no answer there,
\r?\n> just a
\r?\n> great website with lots of good information and photos!
\r?\n> I wrote our resident FRANCOPHILE - Jerry Moos but no answer ( I
\r?\n> hope
\r?\n> Jerry is all right)
\r?\n> Great job JAMIE SWAN!!!
\r?\n> I wrote our resident FRANCOPHILE - Jerry Moos but no answer ( I
\r?\n> hope
\r?\n> Jerry is all right).
\r?\n> Anyways nothing urgent, let me know if there is a website with
\r?\n> old
\r?\n> Peugot catalogs or if someone remembers the model name or number
\r?\n> that
\r?\n> would be great.THANKS!
\r?\n> I guess I could always call it a poor man's "RANDONNEUR".
\r?\n> Yours truly,
\r?\n> Marty Walsh in Vienna,Virginia, USA