Originally Posted by
20grit
Not taken wrong at all. You're definitely the expert.
Feel bad hijacking this guy's thread, but now it has me perplexed. I've posted the bike here before and people seemed to say ventoux.
Did the Nice pick up the Ventoux's Model number in 88? As in mine has a PH 501 on the id sticker which was the designation for the Ventoux.
To the best of my recollection, there were no model numbers in 1988, at least not in the USA catalog. Certainly, I didn't include them in my spreadsheet and there are none in the 1989 catalog, so 1988 may have been the year that Peugeot USA dropped their use. The other notable item is that Peugeot USA totally revamped the lightweight model names in 1988, with the Triathlon being the only holdover. The Ventoux and Nice were models directly below the Triathlon in 1987 and 1988 respectively, so it wouldn't surprise me if your bicycle had a PH501 designation on the sticker. Apparently, Nice was simply the replacement USA name for the Ventoux, so I can easily imagine how someone would mistake this for a Ventoux. I'm presuming Peugeot USA's marketing department simply decided that French cities had a bigger recognition factor with the average American than French mountains. If MiamiJim happens to see this post, he will probably have the definitive answer.