
| Cycles Peugeot |

| I received an E-mail from an owner with the following pictures and letter of provenance/authenticity. This is clear evidence that Peugeots custom workshop was hand producing framesets/bicycles well into the late 80's and early 90's. Thanks for putting together the Peugeot web site. I owned a 1977 PX10LE for a short period of time and currently have what I think is a team Peugeot frame from about 1988-1989. It was from the shop of the late Heinz Linke (Madison cycle) in Lakewood, OH, whom I used to ride with. This frame was purchased without fork after Heinz died from a mutual friend. The documentation that I have, based upon conversations with Mr's. LeTourneau and Doutil from ProCycle, indicate that this bike was a Colombus frame, made in Europe and shipped to Quebec unpainted. They were then painted and decaled in Canada and it was said by LeTourneau that the batch were team issues. It had a made in Canada sticker on the chainstay (which has been removed). It is black with splash decals. I had a fork made by Joe Bringheli in Cleveland from Colombus tubing to complete the build. Serial numbers are stamped under the downtube of the bike starting with the the numeral 9. (A strange place to serialize it in my view.) I thought you would be interested in hearing about, what I think is, a very rare frame. It is a beautifully made frame and handles as well as it looks. |