Originally Posted by
onespeedbiker
From the Peugeot catalog:
Until now lugless racing bicycles made with high quality lightweight tubing were produced on by a few very talented craftsman and priced way beyond the budget of most riders. Once again Peugeot has been the innovator making the first lugless bicycle using Reynolds 501 chromoly tubing. The result is out lightweight and affordable PH 501.
While I am highly skeptical of catalog hype, the bike was relatively light (23 lbs with pedals) and lugless.
Of course, Peugeot managed to ignore the mass produced and affordable Lambert/Viscount lugless chrome-moly frames that were on the market a full decade before the PH 501...