Show your French bikes!
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After having the chain derail when shifting to the small chain ring for the second time, I installed a chain catcher. It seems to solve the problem.
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Here’s my PA-10 just recently finished in time for a couple of retro rides here in the UK. Not an authentic build but in the right spirit of the original I like to think.
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My 1976 Motobecane Grand Touring as it currently sits.

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Thank you ob2s 😀 Seeing your avatar I’m guessing you’re a Peugeot enthusiast? The serial # is 091088, stamped on the NDS rear dropout. I would like to know what year it was built but so far I can only narrow it down to the late 1960s.
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Can’t wait to see it!
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1970 Gitane TdF; 1973 Gitane TdF
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1983 Specialized Stumpjumper Sport; 1985 Specialized Allez SE; 1988 Specialized Sirrus; 1989 Specialized Rock Combo
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1988 Centurion Ironman Expert
1991 Bridgestone RB-1
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1979 Trek 710; 1981 Trek 412; 1981 Trek 710
1983 Specialized Stumpjumper Sport; 1985 Specialized Allez SE; 1988 Specialized Sirrus; 1989 Specialized Rock Combo
1984 Ross Mt. Hood
1988 Centurion Ironman Expert
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Rare Jeunet frameset





New to me and yet to be built up Jeunet Reynolds 531 frameset with Campagnolo dropouts. My first French frame. Will be slowly collecting French components and plan to build it up over the coming winter.

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Your serial is interesting in that from the 60s to 70s Peugeot went 6 to 7 digits, but they made that transition late 1970 once they produced 8,912 bicycles after yours. So you have a 1970 made frame. There are times that a frame built in 19[6-7]X would be used to build a 19[6-7]X + 1 or 2 model. You can use websites like Home or Cycles Rétro-Peugeot to see what decal set and component spec was advertised as a specific model year, which ALSO varies by country. I am indeed a Peugeot enthusiast....I also have one of these, not often seen 'round these parts

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Wow, what an awesome set of PUGs and love that car. Were those just standard set of 26" tires on the MTN bikes? How do you find riding with the Moustache bar? I have a Peugeot MTN bike and was thinking of going with that configuration as well.
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Thanks, they're not the original tyres on the bikes--probably a little wider than original. I like those Nitto bars, they're the B355 Kite bar; I could use a slightly taller stem though to bring them up a little higher.
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might have to stay French headset, review the steerer length, and might need Mafac brakes
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I for some reason desire a Peugeot, perhaps it's the striped frames and the colors. I wish I grabbed a mountain bike I saw on facebook a while ago, but unfortunately I didn't have enough spare parts as I do now, so I couldn't go adopting frame sets. Now I'm going nuts because I can't find a frames set that has forged drop outs and is my size to use my spare parts on
I saw a very nice looking marseille, green and striped a few weeks ago for $50, but I thought it was going to be a bit on the small side.
I saw a very nice looking marseille, green and striped a few weeks ago for $50, but I thought it was going to be a bit on the small side.
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I for some reason desire a Peugeot, perhaps it's the striped frames and the colors. I wish I grabbed a mountain bike I saw on facebook a while ago, but unfortunately I didn't have enough spare parts as I do now, so I couldn't go adopting frame sets. Now I'm going nuts because I can't find a frames set that has forged drop outs and is my size to use my spare parts on
I saw a very nice looking marseille, green and striped a few weeks ago for $50, but I thought it was going to be a bit on the small side.
I saw a very nice looking marseille, green and striped a few weeks ago for $50, but I thought it was going to be a bit on the small side.
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Hi,
some pictures of my recently purchased bike.
Bernard Hinault , Model "King".
Colombus Neuron, which is for sure high end steel for the frame.
I purchased it because I like a lot the paint job on it, Campagnolo chorus, Specialité TA, Mavic rims , ....
Not totally vintage, around 1995, but a very beautiful bike. Not very common, even here in france.



some pictures of my recently purchased bike.
Bernard Hinault , Model "King".
Colombus Neuron, which is for sure high end steel for the frame.
I purchased it because I like a lot the paint job on it, Campagnolo chorus, Specialité TA, Mavic rims , ....
Not totally vintage, around 1995, but a very beautiful bike. Not very common, even here in france.




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Most of the Peugeot's I see for sale certainly look like they belong on the curb 
It's not in reference to the profession, more my tastes and my inability to come up with a nongeneric name on a website. Most I've spent on a bike since starting to buy used ones this year was $20, though the cost after fixing them and new parts, I rather not keep track of. It's easy to take on more projects if you only spent $10 to begin with.
Ironically enough the two bikes that are in the best mechanical condition/highest quality as is were free off facebook a small trek 7.2 that only needed a tube, and a bianchi sport sx that's tiny that I just put two tubes in and need to put new brake housings on.
Whether that's a positive reflection of my luck, or a negative one of my buying habits, I have yet to find out

It's not in reference to the profession, more my tastes and my inability to come up with a nongeneric name on a website. Most I've spent on a bike since starting to buy used ones this year was $20, though the cost after fixing them and new parts, I rather not keep track of. It's easy to take on more projects if you only spent $10 to begin with.
Ironically enough the two bikes that are in the best mechanical condition/highest quality as is were free off facebook a small trek 7.2 that only needed a tube, and a bianchi sport sx that's tiny that I just put two tubes in and need to put new brake housings on.
Whether that's a positive reflection of my luck, or a negative one of my buying habits, I have yet to find out
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A friend asked me to refurbish his brother's old Peugeot as it has been sitting derelict for years in his garage. The bike will be presented to him as a gift whenever I get it completed. We are not sure if the bike was purchased here or in Europe where the owner toured on it while he was there. It appears to have had the mudguards and rack since new, perhaps some sort of tourist's model. The brakes appear newer than the date on the hubs and components, 1977. My friend Doug says it will likely end up in his brothers living room.











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A friend asked me to refurbish his brother's old Peugeot as it has been sitting derelict for years in his garage. The bike will be presented to him as a gift whenever I get it completed. We are not sure if the bike was purchased here or in Europe where the owner toured on it while he was there. It appears to have had the mudguards and rack since new, perhaps some sort of tourist's model. The brakes appear newer than the date on the hubs and components, 1977. My friend Doug says it will likely end up in his brothers living room.












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