Given the age of the bike, the suicide levers may be a later add on. I'd ditch them too; suicide levers are the additional brake levers that lie horizonatally. I believe this bike has down tube shifters, and Peugeot introduced suicide levers at about the same time as gutripper shifters, thus combining two of the finer innovations of the bike boom in one sterling package. Cottered and cotterless photos follow. The cotterless crank is the second. Look at the bolt in the first photo that attatches the crank to the bottom bracket spindle. That's the cotter. They are, in my experience, easiest to remove and install with the proper tool, other methods tend towards inexact, IME.
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