Peugeot 'Pure Gold'

so, nothing fancy, so if your looking for bike porn look elsewhere ha.
So basically my current fixed gear is 700c wheels on an old mtb frame (see here) so Ive decided to put a road frame on it.

Picked up this locally:

Its a 1983 Peugeot Pure Gold. Its got a way to go yet but I'll get it there :)

in regards to frame, don't paint it, leave as it.

Look like it's more trouble than it's worth, let see if you can removed the BB and seatpost.

in regards to frame, don't paint it, leave as it.

yep definitely tempted to throw a chain on and call it done (well after re-spacing the rear wheel etc),

but my wife moans at me when I rock the rat look, so I'm going to make this one shiny :)

Look like it's more trouble than it's worth

Yes, especially if I charged my own time out by the hour, but as it is I like to tinker so it suits me fine as a project. I have 2 other bikes I can ride but I cant ride whilst looking after the kids (well not all the time, naturally I do take them on bike rides), I can tinker whilst the wife is out and Im 'stuck in'.

let see if you can removed the BB and seatpost.

Seatpost is out. none drive side of the BB was no problem, but yeah you called it: the drive crank stripped trying to remove it, I may hacksaw it off (wouldnt be the first time), all in the fun of tinkering with old things.

I think I will lookout for some cheap 1" carbon forks and convert it to Aheadset.

Its been a long time in coming (had a number of none bike related projects to do including, decorating, building a quadcopter and building a table for the wife), eventually got back onto the bike and here it is, not everyones cup of tea but I love it:

new rear wheel is in the pipeline, and a less crap seatpost at some point, oh and plastic pedals, not that Im a weight weenie or anything but the current ones (DMT V6's) are excessively heavy.

From the first photo, to what it is now - incredible job, looks neat!

nice job

Ive built up a carbon wheel for it now, I think it balances well with the carbon fork and I like the whole old school steel with new school carbon thing going on, I guess it may get me relegated to the HHSB but so be it.

Only thing is now the galvanised spokes on the front wheel are annoying me, and the fact that the hub logo doesnt line up with the valve hole on the front wheel ha. Further down the line I reckon a new suitable hub to go radial, or I may itch the temptation to build a snowflake on the front ha.

Nice work! I'd treat this to a smart alloy seat post

not sure if you can be relegated to HHSB, but you will certainly find yourself in anti with a snowflake laced wheel!

Nice work! I'd treat this to a smart alloy seat post

Deffo on the cards, thing is its 24.0mm. I have considered getting a piece of 24mm diameter carbon fibre rod and adding an alloy head to it from a normal micro adjust post, but I don't think there will be enough material in the alloy head to fit inside the rod so plan B: I can get a 24.0mm stem from eBay (Germany) for £22, the biggest thing holding me back (aswell as not liking spending money) is its silver, where as black would be ideal. However it looks like this is the road I will go down. (I know decathlon have a cheap one at 23.4mm that I could shim, but its zero offset and I think I need some offset (and I just looked at it again and its currently out of stock)).

not sure if you can be relegated to HHSB, but you will certainly find yourself in anti with a snowflake laced wheel!

I can live with that lol. I think it would be worse if I paid someone for a snowflake, but if I do it I will be lacing it myself which will give me a certain satisfaction even if the haters hate.