Notes on Peugeut P1

 

Notes for the Peugeot bicycles:

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I have tried a twenty four x one point seven five wheel on the front and rear of the bike,

I had to let the air out of the rear tire to get it to slip into the rear drop outs, this is no big deal.

The tires are new road slick tires, and should be a better ride on the road, $25 for the two.

Don't know if I will be able to fit the fenders (mudguards) with the larger wheels?

The original wheels used a 550 A tire which is pretty close to twenty two x one point seven five.

But it is peculiar to this French bicycle the (550A) the other thing about the old wheels was the fact that they are very hard to source, use the French tire valve (Non Standard) here in Australia.

I also had too file out the front fork drop outs half a millimetre to accept the slightly larger axle shaft and spring out the forks about eight mm, again this was quite easy to do.

The rear brake may need slight modification because of the slightly larger diameter wheel.

The front brake is a definite modification job has the slot for the brake pad is not long enough

I have two options here, one I can modify and lengthen the original brake slots, or two I can use a standard front brake (calliper type) brake and again modify it by lengthening the slot for the brake pad.

Front forks and frame have been painted with undercoat, and it looks like a nice bright green paint will do the job nicely, with matt black crank and pedals, front and rear rack, handle bar,

and seat post. This should set the bicycle off quite well.