Originally Posted by
cudak888
One has to admit, it takes a few minutes to wrap one's head around the idea of a Columbus tubed Peugeot with internal lugs - plus the Campag components.
This had to have been a home-market model, right? I see references to Competition 1000 and 2000's in the 1996 catalog, but there's a gap in catalog references between 1992 and '96 that this probably falls in.
-Kurt
It's not internally lugged but internally brazed, like those early 1980s Carbolite models. It probably is European market, as Procycle was building the mid-range North American market road models with True Temper in the mid-1990s. However, Columbus wasn't new to Peugeot or even the North American market models. Columbus was used as early as 1986, with an SLX tubeset on the USA market PX. If the presence use of a Columbus tubeset makes it Italian, then I guess all those boom era PX10 and PR10 were English, by virtue of their Reynolds tubesets.