Originally Posted by
CravenMoarhead
They really did a slipshod job of finishing these lower end Peugeots. The Paint is absolute crap. There's overspray onto the chrome lugs on the fork crown (original overspray!) and I think they had Maaco shoot the paint
Meguiars scratchX removes as much paint as it does blemishes on this thing. And then there's the plastic Simplex drivetrain. Lovely.
I can't wait to see how this rides.
You sound like you actually expected this to be a Rene Singer for the price of a loaf of Wonder Bread. How could you have had that misapprehension? Besides, it's a 40 year old bike.
Long-time CR members will know (and I'm sure I've seen this comment here over the years) that in the post-war years racing bikes were often seen as tools for racing, rather than as artistic statements of worth and craftsmanship. The UO-8 and its siblings were mass market products, from a very high-volume factory that did not do state of the art craftsman-grade finishing on it's top products, the PX series.