Originally Posted by
TireLever-07
Poster number 2 is correct. Astro Damiler was their high end stuff. I bought 2 French bikes brand new & admired them back then. Bianchi bought out Puch in the very late, 1980's.
sort of correct. Austro Daimler was the higher end stuff for primarily the US market. There were still very high end Puch bikes in Europe. This is Klaus Peter Thaler’s 1982 team bike, made in the Graz Austria factory and confirmed by him to be one of two bikes ridden by him that year, including in the TdF. It is serial number 001.