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Old 03-04-13 | 02:17 AM
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Let's play the "is it a PX10?" game

Hi everybody,

I saw this today on a lawn with a bunch of beach cruisers for sale (and one Raleigh Sport). The paint and decals are beat up, and it's clearly seen a lot, but I picked it up because I'm pretty hopeful. There are a few things that suggest to me that it may be a PX10. If you can help me determine one way or the other, I'd appreciate it. Here's some details with photos:



It's got a sticker on the fork that looks to me like it could have been a Reynolds 531 sticker when it was complete - you can read the "OU" that remain, and those were followed by "RR" (right up until the seller scratched them off when I was asking about them - doh!). From that and the triangular shape of the traces of where the rest of the sticker had been (more visible on the other fork), I'm pretty sure it matched the one visible here: http://cyclespeugeot.com/images/DSC00817.JPG.



Mafac brakes, Nervex lugs:



Inoxydable decal, Nervex Series Professionnel decal, missing frame material sticker:



Stronglight cranks, Campagnolo front derailleur (though I'm not sure it's original):



Simplex rear derailleur (or according to Sheldon, "horrific plastic-meets-metal Simplex deraillieurs"):



Aluminum Rigida rear wheel (front wheel is a replacement Weinmann with rusty spokes):



Other noteworthy bits are that the forks and stays sort of look like they're chromed under the paint (although it might not be), someone replaced the original shifters with Suntour bar-ends, and its light weight. Quickly weighing it at home suggests it's only about 22 lbs. Serial number appears to be 037287, which I think places it as either a 1960 or 1970. Looks like a more thrashed version of the white PX10 here: http://cyclespeugeot.com/PX10ID.html.

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