Retro Peugeot road bike restoration

litwardle

Hi All,

I've just finished restoring a bike of my childhood! I thought I would share it with you as it may be of interest?
Here is the first page of the blog. http://peugeotmontblanc.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/this-is-story-of-a-classic-well-classic.html

Lee

Ron Stuart

You might find this Peugeot bike from the eighties interesting.... I recently raced the owner and the bike :shock:

http://cadencesport.blogspot.co.uk/

unixnerd

My first "proper" bike was a five speed Peugeot from the early 80s, happy times :-)

schleckster

See plenty of old Peugeots amongst the student population around here so you're definitely on trend.

ugo.santalucia

Childhood?

That must be a 60 cm frame... what sort of child were you?

litwardle

I didn't have one as a child but it was from my childhood, if you know what I mean! Blog explains that

I love actually! It rides great A local (rich) roadie came in the other day, lifted the bike and scoffed at the weight.."My mountain bike is lighter than that" Think he missed the point! it weighs 12kg which is not painfully heavy, I suppose it is for road bike terms but then when I'm 2 stone lighter and can climb hills in top gear I'll worry about shaving off the Kilos ha ha

You might find this Peugeot bike from the eighties interesting.... I recently raced the owner and the bike

http://cadencesport.blogspot.co.uk/

Thank you for upping this Ron, really interesting!

P.s. re: the blog..I love it how people make trolly comments on my blog but do it anonymously! If people want to criticise at least have the nuts to use your name ha ha

litwardle

schleckster wrote:

See plenty of old Peugeots amongst the student population around here so you're definitely on trend.

Wish I as a student! ha ha Well, I manage a bike shop so I obviously have access to a multitude of bikes at cost but I find them very boring to be honest! This one came up by chance, by brother knew I was looking for a retro resto project and donated this one! Still on the look out around the recycle centres though....You never know I might find one with a 531 frame :S

zx6man

I have a peugeot 525 comp still in the garage..good as new.

litwardle

No way!!! Look at that! love it!

zx6man

Cant access the blog links from work, what bike you mentioning in those?

litwardle

Ah ok, it's a late 80s Peugeot Pantera
Before:

After:

zx6man

mine was too extreme to be comfy on my commute, but rides great still. Much prefer STi's too these days too!

litwardle

I keep trying to change gear with the lever too ha ha

trek_dan

That is an interesting read. I've got some sort of old Peugout road bike, bought off Ebay for £50 and setup single speed. Didn't realise they had much of a following.

JamesB5446

We've got four old Pugs in our household.
Girlfriend has one the same colour as that, but a step through, we've not got round to doing anything with it though. She usually uses her pink fixie.

litwardle

Glad people are enjoying the blog! I'm amazed too that they have such a following! The hit numbers on the unique visitors to the blog have amazed me actually!

Come interesting facebook groups on the subject out there too....some really nice examples listed...

dynamicbrick

I've got an 86 Peugeot Elite, £41 off eBay.



Well, I've got the forks, frame, stem, bars and brakes from an 86 Elite - everything else is sourced from eBay. Now rocking Dura-Ace 7410, 105, SLR, Exage, and a sniff of Campy, on Vuelta rims.

litwardle

Superb! They are nice looking levers too - I had such a nightmare trying to find brake levers with decent hoods...The ones I have got are less than ideal. The hoods are too small for my hands really....The non-sti levers all seem to have tiny silly hoods....

Ron Stuart

litwardle wrote:

Superb! They are nice looking levers too - I had such a nightmare trying to find brake levers with decent hoods...The ones I have got are less than ideal. The hoods are too small for my hands really....The non-sti levers all seem to have tiny silly hoods....

Our friend Adrian again on his eighties Peugeot with small hoods and check out the eye wear :shock:

dynamicbrick

litwardle wrote:

Superb! They are nice looking levers too - I had such a nightmare trying to find brake levers with decent hoods...The ones I have got are less than ideal. The hoods are too small for my hands really....The non-sti levers all seem to have tiny silly hoods....

They're Shimano SLR aero levers - early 90s I presume. Tenner for the pair on eBay.

Obviously they're not as meaty as modern gear, but plenty big enough even for my large hands

litwardle

Great nice one! I'll have a look, thank you!

giropaul

dynamicbrick wrote:

litwardle wrote:

Superb! They are nice looking levers too - I had such a nightmare trying to find brake levers with decent hoods...The ones I have got are less than ideal. The hoods are too small for my hands really....The non-sti levers all seem to have tiny silly hoods....

They're Shimano SLR aero levers - early 90s I presume. Tenner for the pair on eBay.

Obviously they're not as meaty as modern gear, but plenty big enough even for my large hands

The lever's on Ada's ANC Peugeot are Campag. His Z-Peugeot bike had CLB (I think) brakes - French make. The Z bikes were equipped with French-made components pretty much.

JamesB5446

I forgot to mention, my parents have a house in France, they found an old Pug in it. Not sure of the age but it has rod brakes and a cool art deco logo on the bell.
My mum keeps saying she wants rid of it so I'll have to bring it back to the uk at some point and fix it up.

priory

good to hear a bike shop manager going for a real steel bike because it rides well rather than shaving off weight at £1 a gram.
My peugot is not restored but has evolved over the past 30 years.

Ron Stuart

priory wrote:

good to hear a bike shop manager going for a real steel bike because it rides well rather than shaving off weight at £1 a gram.
My peugot is not restored but has evolved over the past 30 years.

It also survived running over and killing a cat :oops:

Nose up saddles would get me in the jewels dept :oops:

priory

my wife will not allow me to run it over. However, the neighbours feed it so much cheese I think it will pop one day.

the saddle looks more nose-up than it is. I usually have them just a degree or two above flat.

CumbrianMan

I still have my trusty old Peugeot Optimum 531, 14 speed. Can't bear to part with it.
I put some Sora STI's on it a good few years ago, and swapped the bio pace crankset for an Ultegra crankset.
She's still going strong, and I use it on the rollers.
Often think about splitting and selling, but when I see how much they go for on eBay, I think 'what's the point', as it's not worth it. So she's staying