I’m hoping to figure out specifically which year, or if this is indeed a PX10 and not another version that has similar paint job? And also just any additional misc. info.
Thank you for looking!!
Grumpy_Biker1970 on
I don’t like French bikes as a rule but if indeed this is a PX10 than it’s a keeper. To help you can measure tube sizes and thickness to verify if it has the good tubing.
jsp612 on
I think it’s a PX10. If that’s a butted Reynolds 531 decal in “the French place” above the shifters, it’s at least a top end frame. That’s from a few years before or after 1970 and will have French threaded bottom bracket, pedals and headset.
iMadrid11 on
I hear vintage Peugeots have an unusual obsolete French bottom bracket standard. So getting the BB serviced and replaced would be a challenge.
edit: Apparently they still make new French Bottom Brackets
It is a PX10. Very nice frame. Condition looks decent. Do you have the wheels?
tiregroove on
Yeah this is a great score. It’s legit. The rear dropouts, the 531 sticker and the nervex lugs. You can just barely make out where there once was also a triangular 531 sticker on the fork. Also the Stronglight crankset. But the seatpost is a steel replacement and it’s missing the front derailler.
Your first question: Is it your size? This looks like a 58cm or 59cm, something for someone about 6′ tall or so.
Next you really want to clean this bike up, It’s in rough shape and rusting in places. But’ it’s worth fixing up.
Don’t worry about the french threading because all the parts are there, nothing really needs upgrading. Those chainring teeth look worn, that’s a bigger worry. But you can swap in almost any square-taper road crankset.
jadwy916 on
That bike is my holy grail! Nice work!
spike on
The Peugeot PX-10, from about 1962 to the mid-1970s, in various color schemes and graphics, was the least expensive professional grade racing bicycle available. As such, it was looked down upon by the fans of full-Campagnolo Italian bikes, but it was an extremely competent and successful piece of French engineering. Tom Simpson won the World Championship road race in 1965 on a PX-10, and Roger Pigeon won the 1967 Tour de France riding a stock Px-10. The Peugeot professional team was equipped with stock, off-the-shelf factory PX-10s, in contrast to other teams that often rode custom Italian bikes, but they won hundreds of professional road races over the years.
This bike is unusual in the combination of the fancy Nervex lugs and those particular graphics. I would guess that this is one of the fairly rare short wheelbase and steep angle frames made in limited quantities in 1973, and perhaps into 1974 judging from the graphics.
The PX-10 was, along with the Raleigh International and the Schwinn Paramount, the most produced high-end hand-made professional grade bike made in the Bike Boom days of the early 1970s, with an annual production of about 6000 frames. It’s not a particularly valuable item, but it’s still a great ride, a classic steel frame that should last forever.
setmysoulfree2 on
These Peugeot bicycles in the 1970’s were very common and popular like the Volkswagen Beetle cars. I recall vividly. My best friend’s brother had a Peugoet PX10.
Alwaysdrinkbeercold on
Sweet! It is!
rgbenz on
Yes 1975 sounds right. I have a prn10 one model below yours. It doesn’t have the black lugs and has straight gauge Reynolds 531 three main tubes only where yours is double-butted including forks and stays.
Nice gift. It originally had down tube shifters some years had braze-ons. There was also some unique rear dropout spacers for this vintage. Even though it has dreaded French threads, I have had good luck sourcing vintage parts on eBay
The Stronglight cranks are bulletproof, as are the Mafac brakes. The stem and bars are made by Atax, Normandy hubs laced to Rigidia 27 inch rims.
The rear freewheel I believe is 5-speed (14-24) front chainrings are 42/52.
Have fun.
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Serial number has 7 digits. “1348699”
I’m hoping to figure out specifically which year, or if this is indeed a PX10 and not another version that has similar paint job? And also just any additional misc. info.
Thank you for looking!!
I don’t like French bikes as a rule but if indeed this is a PX10 than it’s a keeper. To help you can measure tube sizes and thickness to verify if it has the good tubing.
I think it’s a PX10. If that’s a butted Reynolds 531 decal in “the French place” above the shifters, it’s at least a top end frame. That’s from a few years before or after 1970 and will have French threaded bottom bracket, pedals and headset.
I hear vintage Peugeots have an unusual obsolete French bottom bracket standard. So getting the BB serviced and replaced would be a challenge.
edit: Apparently they still make new French Bottom Brackets
https://velo-orange.com/pages/bottom-bracket-basics
It is a PX10. Very nice frame. Condition looks decent. Do you have the wheels?
Yeah this is a great score. It’s legit. The rear dropouts, the 531 sticker and the nervex lugs. You can just barely make out where there once was also a triangular 531 sticker on the fork. Also the Stronglight crankset. But the seatpost is a steel replacement and it’s missing the front derailler.
Your first question: Is it your size? This looks like a 58cm or 59cm, something for someone about 6′ tall or so.
Next you really want to clean this bike up, It’s in rough shape and rusting in places. But’ it’s worth fixing up.
Don’t worry about the french threading because all the parts are there, nothing really needs upgrading. Those chainring teeth look worn, that’s a bigger worry. But you can swap in almost any square-taper road crankset.
That bike is my holy grail! Nice work!
The Peugeot PX-10, from about 1962 to the mid-1970s, in various color schemes and graphics, was the least expensive professional grade racing bicycle available. As such, it was looked down upon by the fans of full-Campagnolo Italian bikes, but it was an extremely competent and successful piece of French engineering. Tom Simpson won the World Championship road race in 1965 on a PX-10, and Roger Pigeon won the 1967 Tour de France riding a stock Px-10. The Peugeot professional team was equipped with stock, off-the-shelf factory PX-10s, in contrast to other teams that often rode custom Italian bikes, but they won hundreds of professional road races over the years.
This bike is unusual in the combination of the fancy Nervex lugs and those particular graphics. I would guess that this is one of the fairly rare short wheelbase and steep angle frames made in limited quantities in 1973, and perhaps into 1974 judging from the graphics.
The PX-10 was, along with the Raleigh International and the Schwinn Paramount, the most produced high-end hand-made professional grade bike made in the Bike Boom days of the early 1970s, with an annual production of about 6000 frames. It’s not a particularly valuable item, but it’s still a great ride, a classic steel frame that should last forever.
These Peugeot bicycles in the 1970’s were very common and popular like the Volkswagen Beetle cars. I recall vividly. My best friend’s brother had a Peugoet PX10.
Sweet! It is!
Yes 1975 sounds right. I have a prn10 one model below yours. It doesn’t have the black lugs and has straight gauge Reynolds 531 three main tubes only where yours is double-butted including forks and stays.
Nice gift. It originally had down tube shifters some years had braze-ons. There was also some unique rear dropout spacers for this vintage. Even though it has dreaded French threads, I have had good luck sourcing vintage parts on eBay
The Stronglight cranks are bulletproof, as are the Mafac brakes. The stem and bars are made by Atax, Normandy hubs laced to Rigidia 27 inch rims.
The rear freewheel I believe is 5-speed (14-24) front chainrings are 42/52.
Have fun.