1970/80s Peugeot roadbike project help

I inherited this little gem yesterday from a friend. Id love to know when it's from. He told me he bought it in 1986 at an auction. I want to strip all the paint and rebuild it but not sure which way to go. Old classic roadbike which would be almost unusable to ride properly. Or a modern spin on a classic frameset. Hoping people can fire some ideas my way.

Some photos

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Some of the groupset. Thinking of selling any parts of anyone is interested.

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Nothing wrong with a free old peugeot! Just don't throw lots of money at it, the frame is likely heavy and may have weird seatpost size and bb threading. If the goal is to learn how to work on bikes then fine. My advice would be to make it mechanically ok by cleaning, regreasing, recabling, adjusting etc and ride it as is for commuting or whatever.

Working on bikes is not an issue. I haven't taken the BB out yet but the shell is the usual 68MM the axle looks really long. Ill pull that tonight and measure it.

Nice looking Peugeot, it's definitely an older model and therefore probably a French BB. If you look on the fixed cup side, there may be a line around the circumference of it meaning it's a swiss threaded one.

As for dating it, the cyclespeugeot website used to be great for that, bit it seems to be down at the moment...

Cheers, ill check that out when/if the site comes back up. Ill check the bb tonight i hope its not too obscure to get hold of.

Looks very much like this 78 PS10/PSN10 to me.

More here: http://www.peugeotshow.com

Probably teaching grandmother to suck eggs, but find out if it's a French bb or not before attempting to unscrew!

Yeah I just had the same thought.

I think it's this 1983 pxn10

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Although the blurb says 6speed. Mine is 5 so not this one.

the axle looks really long. Ill pull that tonight

Good luck :)

Looks like you're getting close to IDing it too so could be appropriate with a more intimate acquaintance now

Measure the seatpost size if possible. This will tell you if it's up in the PX bracket
26.4 is good, if smaller then look down the range

Oh really. That's great to know. What's the PX mean??

PX10 was their pro bike. Like wot Mr Simpson rode. Which then became PXN10
around the late 70s. N being 'nouveau' maybe?
So hmmm looking at your fork crown and the parts I don't think it's a top one. Cranks are budget as are brakes
Shimano Crane was not put on Pugs. But anyone could have done that.

I'm assuming that's down to a standard tube OD and then different thicknesses of steel is it?

I noticed that the heavy Cyril Guimard straight gauge frame in my loft is 25mm seatpost while the Gitane vitus 980 frame I ride is 26.4mm

Headtube/fork look fucked.

Don't spend money on it until you're sure it's fine.

I have sanded down some of the rust to see how deep it was. It appears to be just surface.

I'm talking about the fork appearing bent (not in line with the head tube).

Seatpost is 26.4mm so that's a bonus. Head tube and forks seem pretty good. May have just been the angle of the image.

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Yup, you're right, they do look decent, reckon you'll be fine.

It's a nightmare trying to get this stem out. Got it soaking in wd at the moment. Then a swift twatting with a sacrificial hammer should do the trick.

Try not to knacker it - 22.0mm stems can be a pain to get hold of :-)

Good use of "twatting". Someone else said the same re a stuck stem, can't remember which thread.