Before - an old damaged Peugeot frame - I think it's from 1971:
After - total cost about 30 € - new parts used: two innertubes, chain (NOS made in GDR, not glamorous, but cheap), rear cog, cable housing, leather bar tape.
Mounting the rear brake was a bit of a challenge. The mounting hole is not as usual but upside down (I have seen that on older Peugeots - still no idea why they made it that way):
I have to make a mounting bracket from a piece of aluminum:
Progress:
and ready:
A couple of parts:
The cranks are not a perfect match, but at least they have the same length...
Pedals are bomb-proof Lyotard from France, and the Mafac brakes could be original with this bike.
The inner tubes are the only new parts so far..
Bottom braacket: Nadax - a fine piece of Swiss precision, french threaded. Unfortunately someone used a locking pliers to unmount it:
After some filing and grinding a standard tool for right BB cups fits:
I read about snowflake wheels a while ago, finding out they were a fad sometimes back in the 90s. In fact they had no advantages, except for you want to build a wheel but the spokes you have are too long...
I found just a rather poor online guide in German, and so it was sort of "trial and...
I wanted to lace the rear wheel in the same 3l-3t-pattern as the front wheel:
But the spokes were just a couple of millimeters too long. Rats. What can I do? The solution is called "snowflake":
The rear wheel is already fine, the front wheel is not yet 100% true.
Pelissier 2000, a VERY nice French made front hub:
After giving the hubs a shine, and the rear hub got new cones and axle:
Been at the hardware store:
Not decided yet which parts of the frame to touch up, and which to repaint. I want to keep the original decals.
I try to use as much parts as possible already lying around, and spend as less money as possible. So I took this nice pair of rims out of the basement:
And this is the rear hub - a nice German made PWB fixed gear hub I got a couple of months ago for 1 € on ebay...
Front hub - not yet...
Don't worry - this is not the first old French bike i'm workin on. I'm sure i'll find a French threaded BB.
BTW - welding is done:
And after a little bit of grinding and filing it looks like that:
Frame is now in its original shape again :P
Welding job not yet done - just tacked together. Bending the tubes was way more easy than I expected - the frame is made of lead tubes? Weight confirms that theory :D but I can weld it like steel...
long time no see - I'll be back with this piece of crap, a Peugeot UO-8 frame in a really weird violet color:
The story: I found this frame in the scrap metal container a couple of years ago. I just wanted the fork, but I had no tools with me, so I took the whole thing home. Figuring out that...