EDIT: Better photos!





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...thanks to a kind gentleman named Lars Kramer, who sold me an NOS replacement stem. The "Midas Touch" look is back:





I will take better photos over the weekend.

-Kurt

bling bling!

Classy!

Believe me, she suffered without it:



Now it looks fantastic - you could see it being displayed to the Goldfinger theme.

-Kurt

Gorgeous! Do take more pictures including the bike as well. I love the simple clean design of older bike parts.

This reminds me of an old German Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. He was known for designing simple buildings but complex in thought. Sleek beautifully finished materials served as the ornamentation themselves. He also designed a very famous chair.

Great looking bike

There are a couple of houses, here in Miami, designed to his stylistic trend; ditto for some business fronts.

Haven't seen any that use glass sheet for walls though; those that I have seen use conventional, framed windows.

-Kurt

Did you ever get a gold slj front mech?

Dang.


That's hot.

Nope; it has a gold Galli as a substitute, the SLJ's are a tad expensive. More importantly, most of the examples on eBay are not the revised 1979 FD, which this bike had.

-Kurt

Very classy bike.

What all is finished in gold? Stem, brakes, brake levers, derailleurs... what about shifters, and rims?

And are the chain rings original? Pedals?

Just curious, trying to learn about these vintage top of the line Peugeots. Thanks.

Everything is factory spec. to the PY10 with exception to the gold Galli brakes (and the replacement FD). Originals for 1979 would have been Mafac's new LS (prior to 1979, the brazed-post centerpull Mafac 2000/Competition's were stock). The gold-anodized Galli toe straps may also be a later addition along with the gold Cobra waterbottle cage. Chain has been replaced with a gold Sedis as well; original was a black Sedis.

All the parts are gold anodized with exception to the headset, hubs, pedals, and Stronglight 105 crankset plus its rings.

This is not the typical setup for a PY10 though, and they did change throughout the production run.

That said, I took care of those photos I promised:











-Kurt

Man o man.... that is REALLY nice.

That Pug looks great in the sunshine.

Mon dieu! C'est formidable! I sadly had to pass up on a set of Simplex gold deraillers to go with my MAFAC's. I wish I'd bought them, but that would've meant no food for the rest of the month. Choices, choices. BTW, somebody HAS to make a gold-parts-register so putting together a Freaky-deaky Dutch Goldmember bike will be a breeze

I'm trying to decide whether that blue or the light Peugeot green is going to be the color of the next frame I build...

That is really happening, Kurt!

That's pretty sweet, I must say! Very sparkly.

Total agreement here

I have a cockpit consiting of Philippe stem, Philippe bar and MAFAC levers. Alll in gold ano. There is also tape and there are cables. It looks like the cockpit was prepared, but I doubt it was ever fitted, as there are no marks. Does someone recognize it? Is this cockpit according PY-10 spec for a certain year?

That could be fitted to a PY10, though most PY builds I've seen have conventional, clear-anodized ATAX/Philippe bar + stem combo. At most, they'll have gold Mafac brake levers.

P.S.: More mid-afternoon pictures:









-Kurt

The gold stem really seals the deal, I must say.

I heard Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and I came running! You'd be surprised at how often the Barcelona Chair pictured shows up in architecture magazines. If only gold Peugeots showed up on CL that often

Beautiful bike!

It never looked right with the silver ATAX; agreed.

-Kurt