Demolished Peugeot PG-10

do you have a good lawyer.

Hey I'm sorry for your loss. I own the same bike and I was wondering if you knew the size of the bottom bracket.

I used to have a bike just like yours. Same color, too. Even wrecked it in a head-on collision except not as severly and with a construction dumpster. My bike is also in bike heaven, too. Too wierd!

Maybe our bikes got together in the bike afterlife and are talking about it.

Peugeot in the 84-87 era replaced carbolite 103 bikes by HLE and Reynolds 501, altough some carbolite 103 forks still were found on certain models and some frames were made with carbolite 103 tubing up to maybe 85-86. So that is not unusual that your bike has 501. Reynolds 531 was also used and so was Vitus and Super Vitus steel tubing, and aluminium and carbon Vitus tubing.

Each had their own character, but dont identify the bike much. The components would be more of an indication and you would have to look into a catalog. There are no complete catalogs online that I know of, just ressources that are mostly geared toward PX-10 and variations, which yours is not. Was there a sticker at some point on the horizontal tube near the seat tube, with the name of a city, like Monaco or something like that?

BTW, the maillard hubs are pretty nice. You should overhaul them and see if they feel any better. The helicomatic system is pretty nice, much easier to swap gears than shimano freehubs, if you have the tool. Cogs are still available if you dig around.

To add some color, you might want to try yellow handlebar tape, yellow tires and yellow brakes sleeves. I'd keep metallic rims. Actually orange might work ok too for the tape, but orange tires are hard to find, and so are the brake sleeves.

Francois