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1968 Sauvage Lejeune

Some close up details. The bike was Peugeot's top of the line full Reynolds 531 model featuring the twin cable Simplex 543 gears...

Peugeot PX10 1962

With an amateur career comprised of an even number of 80 wins outright, a twelfth place finish in the Road Race Championship at the 1964...

Merckx riding for Peugeot 1966

By the time of the 1986 racing season, costs in a period of inflation triggered by an oil crisis meant Peugeot's entire racing budget of...

Bernard Thevenet on a PY10 1975

1941: Always the innovator, Peugeot unveiled a bike with a pressed aluminium frame.

Eddy Merckx is seen here riding just ahead of Johny Schleck of Luxemburg (team Pelforth-Sauvage-Lejeune) during the 1967 edition of the...

Based upon the particulars in evidence in the above photo (the lack of chrome on the rear stays and front fork, no contrasting Black...

Graeme Obree - IHPVA Land Speed Record Attempt to beat 83mph (unsuccessful)

Jane Birkin

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Peugeot would go on to become the most successful factory team of all time in the Tour de France, winning the race a record ten times...

By 1965, the Peugeot factory at Beaulieu was turning out 280,000 bicycles a year, employing nearly 3,500 workers.