The PX 10 was Peugeot’s top model throughout the 1960s and 70s. It sported Reynolds 531 butted tubing and Nervex professional lugs. We purchased this 1975 Peugeot PX – 10 from the widow of the original owner back in 2016. The original bill of sale from Bills Bikes in Woodside was included with the sale. The bike had lived its entire life in Queens. By the time we acquired it, it was in pretty poor condition and a number of original parts had disappeared. We promised Robin, the seller we would restore it back to original.
In 2019, I had purchased some inventory from a old timer bike shop in Oyster Bay. The horde included new old stock versions of almost every part of the Peugeot. So we were able to restore the bike using mostly new components.
We re-laced the wheels with N.O.S. period FIR tubular rims, Trois Etoile spokes and Vitoria Corsa tires.
Jack Trimble of Franklin Frame did his usual fantastic job repainting the frame to match the original.
Rudi Mayr restored a period correct brooks professional saddle.
In the end, the bike is 100% factory correct and more or less new.
Bill purchased the bike on Ebay in 2020 and lives nearby in Bayside, Queens. When he saw the original bill of sale, he noted that it was his handwriting!. he had grown up in Woodside and worked at Bill’s Bikes for several years in the mid 1970s. Apparently, he was the salesperson who sold the bike originally. “It’s a small world“