Getting the old Peugeot bike out again

[johnnyb47]

Hi,
My 42 year old Peugeot Equipe has led a rather quiet life for the last few years sat in a house away from the daily rigorous of life.
It's in immaculate original condition and it holds great sentimental value to me, to which I'm somewhat over protective of it.
I've been using my Specialized Allez for my trips and ride outs for a fair few years now, but it's got quite an aggressive geometry and I'm no spring chicken anymore and don't enjoy tearing about anymore.
Tonight I've been giving the old Peugeot a bit of a clean up and felt some of the old magic and memories I once shared with the old bike.
The original brake levers and calipers are old school Weinmann ,and although there standard two a penny components of the 80s the quality of them are far superior to modern day stuff.
Cleaning them up with metal polish has got them up to a mirror finish and the red paint looks amazing and factory fresh.
As I'm now looking for more comfort and less aggressive cycling, I'm planning on using the Peugeot this summer.
The frame is nothing special as it being a cheap and heavy carbolite steel, but it's so comfortable compared to the alloy frame of the Specialized.
I'm really looking forward to getting it back out on the road again and to enjoy some retro nostalgia it holds.
All the very best,
Johnny.

 

[Thorn Sherpa]

Some really nice Peugeot bikes can definitely see the appeal, hope you have a pleasant time. Can remember when I was younger me and my friend (probably 10-11 years old at the time) decided it was a good idea to take his dad's Peugeot racer out without him knowing! My friend cogged me down Cusworth Hall Hill in Doncaster and roughly half way down flattened the front wheel sending us both over the handlebars. Pushed the poor bike back to his house and placed it into the garage, needless to say his dad wasn't happy when he found out! Never did that again or my friend, wish I'd have paid more attention to the model.

 

[Windle]

Hi,
My 42 year old Peugeot Equipe has led a rather quiet life for the last few years sat in a house away from the daily rigorous of life.
It's in immaculate original condition and it holds great sentimental value to me, to which I'm somewhat over protective of it.
I've been using my Specialized Allez for my trips and ride outs for a fair few years now, but it's got quite an aggressive geometry and I'm no spring chicken anymore and don't enjoy tearing about anymore.
Tonight I've been giving the old Peugeot a bit of a clean up and felt some of the old magic and memories I once shared with the old bike.
The original brake levers and calipers are old school Weinmann ,and although there standard two a penny components of the 80s the quality of them are far superior to modern day stuff.
Cleaning them up with metal polish has got them up to a mirror finish and the red paint looks amazing and factory fresh.
As I'm now looking for more comfort and less aggressive cycling, I'm planning on using the Peugeot this summer.
The frame is nothing special as it being a cheap and heavy carbolite steel, but it's so comfortable compared to the alloy frame of the Specialized.
I'm really looking forward to getting it back out on the road again and to enjoy some retro nostalgia it holds.
All the very best,
Johnny.

Pictures please!

I vaguely remember the Peugeot Equipe. When I first started cycling 'properly' in 1983, a clubmate and I used to ride to Darlington pretty regularly on a Saturday to have a look in Chris Thompson's bike shop along North Road (this was a proper bike shop, though oddly we never seemed as interested in the bikes in there, mainly going in for bits & bobs, probably due to the fact that we were just starting out and the bikes were expensive for us), and then into town for a look at the bikes in Halfords (at that time along Skinnergate), which was more our sort of level. They always had the Peugeot Equipe model in for us to drool over and they were at the kind of 'can nearly afford with lots of pocket money saving' level. Neither of us ever got one mind!

 

[johnnyb47]

They were about £104 in there day and they looked so modern back then.

 

[biggs682]

Nothing wrong with an ol' pug

 

[mustang1]

Pics or it didn't happen!

 

[Smokin Joe]

They were about £104 in there day and they looked so modern back then.

I paid £110 for one in 1984 (I remember the price because I'd not long lumbered myself with a wife and a mortgage and money was tight) when I made a return to cycling after a complete break. I only intended to use it as a runabout and not get serious about cycling again, but six months later it had acquired new wheels tyres, bars and stem, saddle, pedals and probably a bit more.

 

[johnnyb47]

I think they did two variants of the Peugeot Equipe from Halfords .
The early ones had flat squared off crowns on the top of the forks and they had alloy simplex downtube gear levers.
They also had the old Halfords logo on the downtube.
The newer ones had a sloping crowns, plastic gear levers and the Halfords logo was replaced with a Peugeot logo.
They were very subtle changes which you would of hardly noticed

 

[T4tomo]

Nothing wrong with an ol' pug

Indeed I have a very nice one hung my shed!