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That's not safe to say at all. The European brands were more expensive than better Japanese bikes at this time in history. That's why they pretty much disappeared from the U.S. The low end Japanese bikes were still using lugs, I'm guessing these Peugeots were a hard sell when there was so much pro-lug propaganda out there in the literature that people were looking at before they bought. Peugeot still had name recognition from the early '70s bike boom. They were one of the manufacturers that really stepped up production and profited from the demand, and that stuck with them for over a decade. I would say that by the early '80s, that had started to fade.