Originally Posted by
repechage
I think the problem was that in the USA at least the visual was preceded by department store offerings with the same basic look at the head tube that were offered from the 60's on. The cheapness association was just repeated by non Peugeot retailers… reasonably good system that lacked aesthetics.
That's absolutely true. When they came out, I didn't care how good they were. I wouldn't have wanted one because it looked like a cheap bike.
Then I test rode one, in about 2010, i.e. much later. I was impressed!
Thanks for the video, [MENTION=20650]T-Mar[/MENTION]!