The Peugeot Project

 

Geelong Blue

Geelong Blue, a little bit ragged.

Geelong Blue

There seems to be endless discussions of Peugeot bikes here and in other places, including mention of SF10's and Australian made frames. Having not read anything to the contrary, I think SF10 stands for "Stands For 10 Gears".

Textacolur on the brakes makes the lettering stand out on Geelong Pink.

Additional "checkered" brake cable outer protects the chain side chainstay and matches some of the stickers. 

Spare bedroom is temporarily the Peugeot room.

Mornington Orange has front derailleur of a type first made in 1962. Diagram from "The Dancing Chain"

Mornington Orange

Hi

Although most of my bike riding is on recumbents, I occasionally develop a soft spot for road bikes and folders, and am now in the middle (muddle?) of one such craze, this time for Peugeot Mixte bikes. I've documented fixing mixtes and their load carrying before and have thought for a while that the older Peugeot mixtes looked good, but I only really bit the bullet when I responded to a Marketplace ad for 4 Peugeots (some in bits) . And a week or so later (today) I bought Mornington Orange.  

I'm happy with the purchases, 3 of the 5 bikes I've built are rideable and my next small project will be to add some load carrying for Geelong pink. One frame (Geelong red) was in a really bad state and I sent it to Mottainai Cycles for a respray. That will take a few months, meanwhile there's quite a bit of other "stuff" to get on with. 

Meanwhile, just to check I'm on track for the load carrying on Geelong pink, I took some photos of bicycle load carrying and the general scene at a local degrowth festival. They are shown below. There is a "sitting on Milkcrates" photo there, refer to my last post .