The Peugeot Project

Mornington Orange has a larger frame and 

a working front derailleur whose basic design goes back to 1962 (book pic is from "The Dancing Chain")

Geelong pink and messy spare bedroom

Additional "checkered" brake cable outer protects the chain side chainstay and matches some of the stickers. As detailed in this exhaustive blog entry, chainstay protection is a thing, it is sometimes done with stickers but why not Do It With Already Made Stuff  and do a better job in the process.

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

Geelong Blue .....

is still a bit ragged around the edges. 

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".

 

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 am actively involved in recumbent design, building and promotion but consider myself a tourist or "interested outsider" in mainstream bike design. That's not such a horrible thing - a lot of other people could be so involved in bicycles that they don't see the forest for the trees.

 I've documented fixing mixtes and their load carrying before and have thought for a while that the older Peugeot mixtes looked good, but only really dove in when I responded to a Geelong 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 load carrying to 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. The last frame has all the associated bits renewed but completely separated from the frame. It is a Peugeot folder.

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 . 

I plan to go on blogging about the Peugeots!