Vintage Peugeot (maybe?) identification help please

[KneesUp]

I now own the bike pictured, which was sold here some 7 years ago. This is the thread. I bought if off eBay a couple of years ago.

It still has the Reynolds stickers on it, it I know the design on the sticker is too old. And the tubes are aero, which means it must be 531speedstream, if it is 531 at all. The down tube is ovalised in one direction and the top tube in the other (making if flat underneath, perhaps for shouldering?)

Ive trawled through loads of old Peugeot catalogues and cannot find anything that looks much like it at all.

The only think I’ve found with the correct tube shapes is this hybrid off eBay. But clearly the geometry is different.

There are more pictures of my bike from when it was sold on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/70163551@N06/albums/72157695109411255/

Any help in working out what it was much appreciated! I contacted the user who sold it on here originalply a while ago but I guess they dont use the forum anymore.

 

[biggs682]

Nice looking machine

 

[T4tomo]

Good luck. original seller says it was stripped and re painted and bosses added so, chances of finding anything to match in catalogue is very remote?

Did Peugeot even make CX bikes in the mid 90's. It may or may not be a Peugeot, it may or may not be Reynolds tubing.

I'd just enjoy it and not worry too much.

 

[KneesUp]

Yeah the frame alterations make it more difficult to pinpoint exactly what it was / is but you're correct - I can't find much evidence of Peugeot making CX bikes at all - but then given how huge a manufacturer they were, and that they were in France, you'd think they would have made some.

The original sale post says the cable hanger was added at the rear which suggests it had calliper brakes, or a hanger mounted on the seat pin, or v brakes - which doesn't help at all. The mount for the mudguard / calliper on the from fork was filled it at the front, but not the rear. Or maybe it never went all the way through originally (I've drilled it out and it was easier than I expected so I suspect it was filled)


The original seller obviously knows his stuff - there are loads of lovely bikes and components on his Flickr stream - but the bike had some oddities - for example it took me ages to get the front brake not to judder - it turned out the cable hanger was 1 1/8" on a 1" stem. And the front wheel had 21 bearings, 11 on one side and 10 on the other - although of course anything could have happened in between it selling here and me buying it on eBay..

It rides beautifully - it's now a 3x10 Chorus so I've changed the rear wheel (the spline pattern changed from 9 speed onwards) and I changed the front wheel because as well as the odd bearings it had no seals on it so the cups were a bit rough. The old wheelset it on my turbo bike. It's obviously not been used much because looking at the original Flickr pictures, it still has the same mis-matched brake blocks (which could also explain why I had issues getting the front to behave!)

It'd just be nice to know more about it. There can't be many steel framed bikes with tubes shaped like this.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Any sort of frame number on it - there is a web site somewhere with the Peugeot frame numbers on which might help

not sure where I found it a while ago when feeling nostalgic about my old Peugeot from the 1970s!!

 

[KneesUp]

It has 6007423 stamped on the BB shell. I thought Peugeot numbers had letter in them though.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

It has 6007423 stamped on the BB shell. I thought Peugeot numbers had letter in them though.

no - mine was something like 1656362 - no letters

I will see if I can find the serial number web site and post it here

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

found this - not what I was looking for but it might help