My latest restoration from the forrest of old steel. I think it was summer of last year, I traded a pair of ESGE fenders and a Wald handlebar for the completely partsless frame of this '74 PR-10. It didn't even have a fork, But I figured that it might be as close as I ever come to having a PX-10. See http://www.cyclespeugeot.com/ for more information.
The parts hunt was typically epic, old French bikes are not for the faint of heart, or those looking for fast resolutions. Nothing is standard, it sometimes seems. The fork was the easiest, and least correct part. It was a replacement living on a 70's Batavus frame I picked up. The headset is now english, thanks to the new fork. The bars are Pivo's, french and period correct, a lucky find on e-bay. the stem and Mafac Racers came from a UO-8 I snagged for parts a few years ago. The levers came from a friend, another friend sold me the Stronglite 93 crankset, factory would have been a 49. The seatpost, in it usually oddball 26.2 sizing, is a cheap Kalloy, until I can find something more appropriate. The saddle, is a Norex sourced from the same UO-9 that provided the stem. The drivetrain is mostly 70's Simplex from the parts pile, plastic levers, plastic FD, hopefully still holding up, and a ca 1984 SX610 borrowed from my distressed PH10L, all connected by a n.o.s. Sachs chain. Pedals are my favorite Lyotard 36's and chrome Christophe cages from e-bay.
I'm proud of the wheels, I built these, Normandy HF hubs laced to 80's Araya's sourced from a garage sale Schwinn, tied together by SS spokes I got in a castoff box at a swap.
