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Old 05-13-18, 09:27 AM
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Originally Posted by verktyg
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 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
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As with everything Peugeot there's an exception to everything. As far back as my catalogs go 'U' is for Utilitarian', I can only guess that in this instance they used a 'U' designation because clinchers were more utilitarian than tubulars. Peugeots used 'N' for clinchers as seen in the late 70's and 80's catalogs. PXN PFN PKN...of note is that these models also had an 'E' suffix. What was different? Just about everything in '78.
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