I have had her for several years and could never figure out just what she was... the Bocama lugs, lugless bb, smallish frame, and position on the pump pegs all set her apart from more common Pugs like the UO and AE variants and her stance is just a little more aggressive.

She is quick and fast...

I finally seem to have found a match while looking through the catalogues at cyclespeugeot... this is just how she looked when I found her although she was pretty roughed up.

https://cyclespeugeot.com/images/1974_Peugeot_UJ10.jpg

I suppose it's a good thing I am not a giant although you do need to have an inseam of 32 to stand over the bike as the bb is nearly 12 inches from the ground.

Blasphemy I know, but the fixie guys could really love a frame like that with no BB drop.

Note the drive...

Nice Bike.
Love the colour.....about my size too.
Do tell us about that crank & chainring combo.

Oh, wait a second. Only a front brake? Must be

leweee - It's a Peugeot branded Sakae SR crank that I salvaged off an 80's Pug and a Sugino 52 tooth chainring... with an 18 tooth cog in the back the gearing is steep but not ridiculous.

She was my first Pug and my first fixed gear... we have travelled a lot of miles together and figure there are many, many more miles ahead of us.

I have "nicer" bikes but these Pugs are a sickness...

Got one just like it (not fixed gear) hanging in the workshop right now. It was a donor bike for my 1975 U08 restoration. The bike I have is in a violet/purple color.

Yep. A rear coaster brake.

The damn thing never works... it's like it's frozen and the thing doesn't coast either.

Check the bottom bracket... is it lugged ?

This is the strangest feature of my bike.

When the angles of the frame do not fit into a stock lug or bottom bracket, the assembler will often fillet braze the parts together. In this case it looks like it was cheaper to use this technique than to have a specially angled bottom bracket cast...

This is what I was thinking too...

What a great looking bike! I would never have imagined that bar-tape colour working with the orange, but it looks fantastic.

Okay, now let me see if I got this straight: It's a youth bike, and since the little guy has to have full sized wheels (c'est obviouse, n'est pas?), and it would look goofy if the top tube wasn't horizontal, the solution is to raise the BB up? What genius!

Don't worry, my son, the world is overpopulated already, it is not necessary that you have children.

It is actually cloth and shellac which has gotten a few more coats of shellac since I took this pic and time has also caused the wrap to darken a little more... I also had to cover that shifter boss with something so mounted my bell there.

And she is scruffier than she looks as she is no garage queen.



This odd bb really baffled me when I got the bike but it makes sense when you see it's desired market... tall gangly kids and old guys of average height who like to turn their commute into a time trial.

Old Peugeots already have some decent bb clearance which makes them appealing for fg conversions...I am running 700:25's and have 11.5 inches of clearance at the bb and really decent pedal clearance with 170's.