Hi everyone,
I should preface this with I am not the most knowledgeable in vintage road/touring bikes, but I’ve always been extremely interested in them. Though the city I live in is extremely car-centric so I’ve always put off buying one/diving into the hobby/lifestyle all of these years. I’m fairly mechanically inclined and have a lot of tools as i’ve been a BMW technician the last decade or so.
I was gifted this Peugeot Tourmalet, and just like the 80’s/90’s European cars I like to fix and restore in my free time I’d like to do the same to this Peugeot! If anyone has any information more about this bike it would be greatly appreciated. Before I move on to disassembly/trying to get as much rust off as possible I was curious as to if the frame was steel or not, as I feel like knowing that will give me a good idea of how I can treat it. So far I’ve only given it a ‘WD-40 bath’ to start loosening up a lot of the rusted-stuck components/parts.
I completely understand just off basic research this might not be the nicest or highest end vintage bike by any means, and I can imagine a lot of people will just tell me to toss it and wait for one to pop up on marketplace in my price range, but it fell into my lap and again I am a big fan of restoring old broken cars and other things of the like.
I’d like to try to re use as many parts that are on it now but if there are some things i should just take off and automatically replace with newer parts that would also be great to know as well. Thank you for taking the time to read my post and I hope everyone has a great weekend!
by krylonfanboy