Old 06-15-19 | 01:14 AM
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Bikes: Cheltenham-Pedersen racer, Boulder F/S Paris-Roubaix, Varsity racer, '52 Christophe, '62 Continental, '92 Merckx, '75 Limongi, '76 Presto, '72 Gitane SC, '71 Schwinn SS, etc.

Carbolite tubing was first introduced on Peugeot's lower-level racing-style bikes having brazed lugs.

It was a significantly lighter tubing than their previous high-tensile tubing as used on their U08 through U010 frames, and as such they no longer spot-welded the cable stops onto the now-thinner tubing but brazed on new barrel-shaped cable stops instead.
Later on they used Carbolite tubing for making their unique lugless frames, which were lighter yet by virtue of their losing the lugs.

My first-year 1979 Carbolite U09 carries the Super Sport moniker of that one year, and sort of lives up to it. It is a great-riding bike imo, with far more-sporting geometry than any previous U0-series bikes. I think of it as "a Super Course with 1-degree steeper angles", again it is an altogether different animal than any that came before it.

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