Oldandgray1

I was recently at an antique auction and ended up with a vintage Peugeot racing bike. Owner said there was only a 100 made for the race. It is a woman's bike. Trying to find out how I can get info on it. Is there a serial number or catalog that I can get. I bike very little. Have an entry level trek but I do collect antiques. Any info soul be appreciated

oddjob2

bikeboompeugeot.com has the catalogs, but if it truly a limited edition it won't be listed.

Please supply as much information as you can, and pictures are most helpful, this includes a meaningful and descriptive title. The more information you can provide about the item you are asking about the value of the better we can answer the question. If you do not know much about the item you are asking about, again, photos are most helpful. Many of us can at least get a rough idea of the quality of a frame even after a repaint, from a good photo or two.

Best to upload to a photo host and provide links.

trailangel

A vintage Peugeot woman's racing bike... 100 made.....Hmmmm.
Without a picture, I'd say you were taken.

T-Mar

Welcome to the forum. The serial number should tell us the era and possibly the exact year. Some 1980s Peugeot also have a paper sticker of the bottom of the frame which providse the model number. If you take a photo, make sure it is from the drive side. This will allow us to identify the drive components, which are vital to determining the era and level. Better yet, take separate pictures of the major components: rear derailleur, crankset and brakes. Also, the tubing decal, if there is one.

Chombi

"Women's race bike"??.....Sounds like it could be a mixte, as I don't think anyone will mistake a step over to be a racing bike.......
Only 100 made......highly unlikely......

John E

Did it look like this, perhaps?
https://www.google.com/search?q=peug...tQBkJHp0itM%3A

Nice bike, very popular in its day, but not really rare.

Oldandgray1

Ok. I don't think I was taken. It was in a group of items I was bidding on and only paid 50 bucks for all of it. Was actually wanting a poster that was in the lot. I tried to post pics but couldn't figure out how. I'm going to take it to a bike shop in Fort Worth and see if they can re condition it. Will work on getting pics posted. Thanks everyone !!

Bikerider007

Will probably cost more to service than you paid. May be better to sell as is.

francophile 

I'll give a short at a decipher:

"Womens bike" = "really short" or "doesn't have a horizontal top tube"
"Racer" = "The word "race" or "racer", possibly "champion" or "sport" or "competition" appears somewhere on the bike.

In my experience, usually "womens racer" in Peugeot terms means it's a UO18/UE18 mixte with Mafac Racer calipers on it.

T-Mar

When I was selling Peugeot during the boom, it meant a Peugeot mixte with dropped, "racing" handlebars. Peugeot catalogued a lot of these. They go back to at least the boom era with the UO18C (the C suffix indicated "competition"). In my area, these were more popular with the young females than the UO18/UE18. The latter was more popular with the 30+ females.

Edit: Another possibility, at least in the Canadian market, was a women's proportional model offered in the late 1980s. It had the smaller 24" front wheel and was marketed specifically at female triathletes and thus was considered a racing model.

thumpism 

Peugeot also made a 24" wheel mixte. They made lots of stuff and sold in many markets so what you found may never have been originally sold here, but was imported by a private party.


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CV-6 

Where unfortunately they are probably going cringe when they see French threading, then tell you it is obsolete and not worth fixing up. If you seriously want to refresh this bike, then I suggest you learn to wrench yourself on it. In the long run it will be cheaper than the shop and far more rewarding. Good luck from a confirmed Francophile.

John E

As the owner of two UO-8s, one of which died from a cracked chainstay and the other of which is my daily beater/commuter, I concur.

John E

When I worked at a Peugeot-Nishiki dealership in the early 1970s we suffered from a perennial shortage of white UO-18s in both frame sizes. My boss cringed when I told him I wanted to buy a new bicycle for my wife, because he assumed she would want a back ordered white 22" UO-18. Fortunately, she had gotten used to riding my first Bianchi and instead chose a red 21" UO-8 frame, which I then built up into a custom bike for her, with TA Professional cranks, straight UO-18 non-drop bars, aluminum rims, stem shifters, and Japanese derailleurs. Forty-two years later I still have the bike and, more importantly, I still have her.

T-Mar

You've got me beat! I met my wife 40 years years ago and the following spring bought her a Nishiki International, which we still have.

jefnvk

Depends on the vintage. Mid-late 80s should all be standard. I regularly see old crap (and yes, I do mean crap, not just generic old bikes) sitting in the repair queue at Performance Bike.

That said, for the cost to overhaul it at a shop, it is worth learning how to do on your own. The labor costs from the shop will buy you every tool you would foreseeably need.

francophile 

My previous definitions strictly speak to today's translations for phrases/ideas from typical classified and auction sites. These, coming from people who typically believe "mixte" = "girls bike" or "lack of horizontal top tube" = "girls bike", which just isn't true.

noglider 

Also, "racing bike" may refer to a bike that one doesn't want to ride because it requires a leaning posture. One might prefer an upright bike and see drop bar bikes as racers. I remember when the Raleigh Sports type bike was called an English racer, even though it was never used in races.

francophile 

But, it has "sport" on it and it's a bike, that must mean it's used for cycle racing in that there Tour de France, right?

I love ads I see on the local Craigslist with "has been in/won several races over the years". Here's one of my local favorites right now, I'm not knocking the seller, but the title makes me chuckle every time I read it. It's a beautiful bike all the same.