Originally Posted by
79pmooney
UO-8 hi-ten? I doubt it. I know the love here for UO-8s runs very deep, but my experience with my 1967 UO-8 suggests the frame was closer to mild steel. Every time I laid that bike down, even in otherwise completely inconsequential spills, it rode differently afterwards. I gave up trying to keep it aligned and just accepted it as a slinky. Maybe Peugeot changed the tubing later, but what I had was not hi-yield steel by any means.
Ben
I rode a peugeot in the early 90s for a few races, and it was the most fleixible bike I have ever been on. Out of the saddle climbing almost always resulted in ghost shifting as the rear wheel went out of plane with the crank.
I believe they often used (a) 'manganese-moly' alloy(s) on a lot of their bikes.