Riding around an old Peugeot...

fmradio516 · #1 03-24-2023, 03:56 PM

Been back home staying with my mom for the week.. a friend of hers gave us her late brothers Peugeot... Ive been riding it around town and although its heavy, its been nice to be able to ride something. The steel wheels and decades old pads are pretty bad, but I can live with that... the brakes themselves are Mafac Racers, so I guess those are good enough for the occasional 8 mile ride whenever i visit....

Couple things:

-The seatpost slips after so many miles of riding. Anyone know if theres a slightly more modern seatpost thatll work? I dont have calipers here but its a small diameter seatpost(25mm??) with some kind of shim(see pic below)

-It desperately needs tires. Whats an OK set of 27" tires?

AngryScientist · #2 03-24-2023, 04:01 PM

That's a pretty damn cool bike actually!

Spend a hundo and get that thing sorted to be a little better experience.

https://www.biketiresdirect.com/prod...d-tire-27-inch

for tires

You can surely kludge a modern set of road pads and holders to those brakes which will improve the braking dramatically,

For the SP, pull it out, hit it with a rough grit sandpaper at the clamp location and smear some carbon paste on it. Looks like a janky shim on there, but should hold up with the above solution.

I like it!

pinkshogun · #3 03-24-2023, 04:02 PM

Panaracer makes 27" tires. Kenda arent bad either for casual riding

donevwil · #4 03-24-2023, 04:06 PM

Mafac Racers are excellent brakes definitely worthy of some new pads.

Louis · #5 03-24-2023, 04:19 PM

Let's hope that this thread turns into the equivalent of an automotive "frame off" restoration thread in some car forum, where the first post is "Hey, check out this '65 XYZ I just got - it seems to run OK, so I think I'm going to drive it as is." Then, after a few "Cool find" posts by others, the OP says "Hmm, I found some rust chips in the fuel filter, I wonder what going on there..."

Then we're off and running, and two years and 500 posts later the OP's sunk 20 times the original purchase price into the thing and he still isn't done...

Good Luck

jamesdak · #6 03-24-2023, 04:26 PM

To be honest pads are not really going to help the brakes. The main issues with those are the steel rims themselves. I put a really cheap set of alloys on and after that I finally had brakes. Be especially careful if it's wet at all.

As to the seatpost. That shim should be removable and then you can go with a larger, easier to find seatpost from someone like Kalloy. I just looked at my ol thread on my U-08 but I didn't mention what seatpost size I wound up using on it, Sorry.

I will say for a heavy old bike boom 70's beast they are actually quite good rides. Be gentle with the shifter as the plastic on the derailleurs does tend to crack.

Some nice Pasela tire's will ride nice on this.

Here's how I finished mine up years ago.

verbs4us · #7 03-24-2023, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by donevwil

Mafac Racers are excellent brakes definitely worthy of some new pads.

Another feature of Mafacs: they usually squeal so loud, you won't need a bell or yell "on your left!" Just squeeze the brake lever and bluejays for miles around will flock to your side.

fmradio516 · #8 03-24-2023, 05:25 PM

Awesome! Will definitely throw on some new bar tape as well. I might hit the brake pads on a grinder for a sec to get through to some non-hardened rubber.

The Paselas are temping! Whats the equivalent of 28mm tires? 1-1/4"?

PS: I need to hold back on this thing as I can easily see myself throwing some Campy fluted cranks on it. Thankfully the BB wont take em!

fmradio516 · #9 03-24-2023, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by jamesdak

Here's how I finished mine up years ago.

Ugh that is such a nice looking bike. Really like the aero brake levers... Now that I think of it, it might be cheap enough for me to find some no name aero levers and replace whats on there since i need new cables and housing anyway.

What is that saddle?? Maybe dont tell me..

NHAero · #10 03-24-2023, 05:41 PM

My first 10 speed, in 1969! Yep, the steel rims! Brake-free!

EPOJoe · #11 03-24-2023, 05:53 PM

Love it! I just put a pair of these on my 1983 Ross Super Gran Tour XV, and they feel great:

https://www.biketiresdirect.com/prod...ffiro-v-27inch

pinkshogun · #12 03-24-2023, 05:54 PM

get the 27 x 1 1/4 not the 1/8 size. 1/4 is about a 32mm

fmradio516 · #13 03-24-2023, 06:02 PM

I forgot to mention that it has a mechanical trip odometer with a little thing attached to a spoke that spins a little dial on the odometer on each rotation!! Its wireless!!!

NHAero · #14 03-24-2023, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by fmradio516

I forgot to mention that it has a mechanical trip odometer with a little thing attached to a spoke that spins a little dial on the odometer on each rotation!! Its wireless!!!

Tink tink tink tink

jamesdak · #15 03-24-2023, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by fmradio516

Ugh that is such a nice looking bike. Really like the aero brake levers... Now that I think of it, it might be cheap enough for me to find some no name aero levers and replace whats on there since i need new cables and housing anyway.

What is that saddle?? Maybe dont tell me..

Ok, It's a Brooks Swallow or maybe the Gyes equivalent. I'm betting Brooks because it's got those copper colored rails. I sold this one about 2 years ago so I can't check for sure.