Beautiful bike and looks to be fairly original. I have a buddy who has one of these in black. The stronglight 99 crank is, IMO, a plus as you can run it compact for better climbing gears. Plus the rear simplex derailleur is quite good and can handle a decent sized freewheel. Here is the info from velobase, VeloBase.com - Component: Simplex SX410 T

I modded my 1982 Peugeot PXN 10 with an 86 bcd crank like your stronglight 99. I'm running 50/36 rings with a 14-28 6 speed freewheel. An 86 bcd crank will go as small as 28 teeth (and it's easy to convert one to a triple if you want though finding the right length spindle may not be easy).

Interesting how owners will go on and on about how much they loved riding their bikes, then you look at the chainrings and wonder "How many miles was that?" I bought a similar Raleigh International about a decade ago and the tiny wear lines on the bearings once I got them apart reaffirmed that the bike had maybe a hundred miles on it since 1974, yet the OO made it sound like he had ridden it across the country.

This PX 10LE would have come with tubulars, so the original owner must have had the hubs relaced with clinchers. Not at all uncommon in those days when 700C was just arriving on the US shores.

Nice bike! Good way to memorialize someone who was close.

Have a similar Maillard freewheel on my Moto Super Sprint. I'll get around to a tooth count on it next time the wheel is off. The stacked looking construction of it had me first thinking it was an early cassette. (It does share the remove-able cog system a bit with the later cassettes)

I know a couple of rides isn't really enough to form an opinion on the tires, but what do you think?
Don't see gum/tan-wall Conti's around here very much.

-D.S.

Thanks!

I’m a novice rider so my opinion on the tires and a dollar might get ya a cup of coffee. But yes they appear to be a quality tire. I’ve only done a couple of short rides on the PX10 with these Conti’s. So not much data there.

But I did use a set on my 01 C’dale for a couple hundred miles last summer. They replaced a $20 Giant tire. I can’t say I felt any different in ride quality. And I’m only a 15 mph (24 kph) 90 degree corner taker. So I can’t comment on any traction improvement over the Giant’s.

Now this next one I’d like to attribute to the weight difference between a Conti vs a heavier cheap tire. But I’m a novice, so it could be the power of suggestion or the thought that I spent silly money on a set of tires so they should perform better; I’ve got a 5% grade hill that I ride up every time I go for a pedal on my C’dale. With the Giant tires I would crest the hill at 8 mph. According to the old CatEye. The first ride with the Conti’s I crested at 10 mph. And did so many times after (once at 12 mph).

Once late Summer came the “goat head” plant that’s prolific where I live started to seed my route. Those spikey little demon seeds gave me two flats. So I switched to Gatorskins and rode those until I switched bikes in November.

So that was a bunch of word salad I just typed. Hope it helps. If not I’ll buy you a cup of coffee if you’re ever nearby.

Coffee is still a first Sunday mornings around here, sometimes if not a little black.
Got my first "quality" tire in October- a Panaracer Pasela in 700 x 28. Until then, I relied on tires from Wally, or what ever I could find cheap.
The bike is responsive enough to lean in some of the higher speed corners with the worn no name gumwalls that were on it. I rode them a bit and rough averaged 12 mph. (there's little to climb around here) With the pasela, my average notched up to about 14 mph the last time I calculated it. Best guess is I crested the 15 mph average mark at the end of dry road season. That average may go up again in the coming spring- I plan on replacing the end of it's life Rigida steel wheel with a modern alloy wheel. I sure learned a valuable lesson on tires last fall.
I have a blackwall Continental Sport 2 on the front rim with the same odd tread pattern as what appears on yours.
-D.S.

Your serial number 7 02 3493 indicate a frame built in February 1977 ; so certainly a 1977 model.

Beautiful PX-10, it appears your bike is missing some washers to secure the brake pads to the caliper arms, it should be between the pad post and the arm.

see the washers

The barrel that the pad holder shaft goes through has little grippy "teeth" that bite into the caliper arms. Are mine different? Still need the washer? I can't see the back side of the barrel in your picture.
Scroll up. There's a couple of pics back when I got it. Back when it was all dirty.

I guess yours is a different version of the Mafac Competition that I am not familiar with. I googled Mafac Competition and found more examples like yours. Sorry for the mix up.

No worries! It's like chasing down saddle cables. There's different versions as well.