I saw your "checks" but still find it difficult to believe those turkey levers would find their way to a top of the line, race-bred bike. That makes me SMH.

I'm with you. You'd be surprised at the number of bikes we added those to back in the day.

As side note, around '78-ish or so Peugeot began painting European PX10 forks and stays.

to me, it's also weird that bike has dt bottle bosses and brazed shifters but no top tube fittings.

i'm used to seeing top tube guides on a particular model before those other braze-ons appear in its evolution.

...a lot of PX-10's back in the 70's in the US (at least near me) were not sold to racers but to guys who
had the money and wanted "the best". The best condition PX-10 I ever bought here was one that had been
owned by a guy who bought it "hoping to become a bike rider", and who parked it in the attic or garage
somewhere after the first flat tubular........He carried it around for the next 30 years from place to place,
but it never carried him another mile. Good for me :), bad for him. :(

Probably it's still the same way, with money chasing"the best", but I don't follow CF much, except to make fun of the freds in road. :o

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I bought this from Italy, with practically all parts replaced so I basically just have the frame of PX10 or some variant. Notice the through the top tube cable routing. Frame serial number 6120211 and decals seem to say around 1976. Two questions:
1.I could easily believe that the cable holes are a self made modification. However, I can see absolutely no marks of removed cable guides or a repaint on the top tube, that is puzzling. Is it possible that this modification has been made in factory?
2.Is it at all possible that the Stronglight 105 bis crankset is original? I know it started production in 1977, but I've read that sometimes bikes have been assembled from frames built on the previous year.

I have asked this before here, but without detail photos.

It would have had bolt on cable clamps and I see marks on the top tube that could have been made by them. I believe that the holes are an owner modification.

That does look pretty crude to me. I agree with previous owner modification.

Oh, cable clamps! That explains everything, I thought Peugeots like this had welded on cable guides. Now that I look at photos of PX10 the clamps are quite visible. Duh!

How about that Stronglight 105 bis crankset? I've seen them on several PX10s..