Originally Posted by
miamijim
AVA date code is located at the end of bars by the plugs. I don't recall if its the left or right.
'E' means different than or higher specification depending on the model. The question is different than what?
Example: PX10LE P=Peugeot, X=inoxydable tubing, 10=racing series, LE=High Luxury
At one point I thought that the letters in the model numbers indicated sewups or clinchers but the 1974 US Peugeot catalog lists a UX-10 as a PX-10 with clinchers???
The only difference that I can see in the 1974 US Peugeot catalog is the PX-10E came with an AVA "death stem" and AVA bars plus Ideale 90 (or Brooks B17) saddle.
The PX-10LE was supplied with a forged Philippe stem and Philippe bars plus an Ideale 2001 saddle.
http://www.bikeboompeugeot.com/Broch...0Page%2017.jpg
Of all of the European
production bike manufacturers, Peugeot kept closest to their advertised specs during the 60's and 70's. That and the bike boom had come to a screeching halt in 1974 so those specs should be good.
Drooping French bars. I wouldn't ride bars this far gone.
verktyg
