Picked up this beautiful Peugeot 753 Pro yesterday 52cm

[tarloone]

Interesting story about this colour scheme. Peugeot adopted this colour scheme following legal wrangles when Carrera poached Stephen Roche from Peugeot whilst he was still on contract. As Carrera rode Battaglin , Peugeot insisted Stephen Roche wore Peugeot shorts and had his red white and blue Battaglin stickered up as a Peugeot for the remainder of his unfulfilled contract .Peugeot then followed up by releasing a Peugeot 753 bike and frameset in those same Battaglin colours. The below photo is that Battaglin with Peugeot decals.

The seperate framesets you could buy as part of the 1989 range also had a 'Peugeot' decal on the top tube like that Battaglin too. The complete bikes didn't have this.

 

[ChromeChainstay]

I realise this is an old thread, but I also am the proud owner of a 1989 Peugeot 753 Pro, 62cm frame with full Shimano 600 'tricolor' STI groupset. I bought it in 1989, second-hand, from a geezer in Watford who'd bought it new, ridden it twice and after a couple of months' ownership, decided cycling wasn't for him. I've made a few, fairly minor, component changes over the intervening 35 years, but the bike is still very largely original and still rides really well.

I can confirm that the seat tube is by Stronglight - mine's the same. I swapped the original Atax quill stem for a longer Cinelli XA one (ditto the original bars are now swapped to Cinellis), replaced the quill pedals + straps with Look (first original Delta, more recently Keos) and the saddle with a black San Marco Rolls. More recently I've had to replace the freehub (originally Ultraglide) with a more recent Hyperglide one, to facilitate a change of gearing, as UG stuff seems no longer available. That required a bit of 'surgery'... Original Shimano 600 52/42 rings I replaced with TA 53/39s at some point.

One thing I'm not sure of with yours is whether the wheels are actually original. Mine came with (and still have) really rather nice Mavic Mach 2 CD2 sprint rims, now kitted out with Vittoria Rally 21mm tubs (originally it came with Wolber tubs). The catalogues of the time showed that these sprints + tubs were standard fitment, but I'm not aware there was ever a clincher option (such as yours has) at the time.

More recently, I decided to strip back the lower part of the paint on the front forks (which had become quite chipped) to reveal the lovely chrome underneath. I'm really not sure why they decided to paint over the chrome for the '89 model year; maybe they decided chrome was looking 'old hat' by then, but I really rather like the look of the 'half-chromed' forks on mine now!

oh my' that's nice

 

[georges1]

Very nice bike in the mid nineties until the early two thousands, Puegeot had a high end bike department called Team Line which made bike assembled à la carte

 

[tarloone]

Super nice..I've a frameset from the same year in same colourway and also a 52cm that i've built up with 600 ultegra and open 4cd rims. BTW those wheels/tyres have been changed for more practical clinchers as the original came with mach2cd rims and tubs.

 

[Canuk]

Nice that Peugeot weren't famed for making lightweight frames though (I've got a 531SL, it's a clunker). It would interesting to get an idea of the bare frame weight (if you're of a mind to strip and clean it that is!)

 

[Canuk]

I actually prefer these Peugeot 753s to the Raleigh SBDU, they can still be had for relatively cheap and they look and ride great.

 

[StephAureus]

Super nice..I've a frameset from the same year in same colourway and also a 52cm that i've built up with 600 ultegra and open 4cd rims. BTW those wheels/tyres have been changed for more practical clinchers as the original came with mach2cd rims and tubs.

That definitely applies to the OP's bike, but mine (that I posted a bit upthread) still has the original Mavic Mach 2 CD2 sprints, on which i run Vittoria Rally 21mm tubs. I guess if you ride every day then clinchers are *probably* more practical, but in my experience sprints & tubs aren't what I'd really call 'impractical' and sometimes it can be a quicker 'on-road' repair to peel off a punctured tub and fit a spare (which, of course, you carry, folded up, with you at all times). Once inflated, there's enough adhesion in the old glue on the rim bed, combined with the inflation pressure, to get home safely provided you don't ride like a hooligan.

 

[tarloone]

That definitely applies to the OP's bike, but mine (that I posted a bit upthread) still has the original Mavic Mach 2 CD2 sprints, on which i run Vittoria Rally 21mm tubs. I guess if you ride every day then clinchers are *probably* more practical, but in my experience sprints & tubs aren't what I'd really call 'impractical' and sometimes it can be a quicker 'on-road' repair to peel off a punctured tub and fit a spare (which, of course, you carry, folded up, with you at all times). Once inflated, there's enough adhesion in the old glue on the rim bed, combined with the inflation pressure, to get home safely provided you don't ride like a hooligan.

Yeah think it was the time where I rolled a front and melted my arms away on the road that falsely influenced me .. I nearly bought some 2cds not long ago for mine actually. Still a great set of rims and specialist for a mainstream bike back in 89 too.

 

[marshalllucky]

Nice that Peugeot weren't famed for making lightweight frames though (I've got a 531SL, it's a clunker). It would interesting to get an idea of the bare frame weight (if you're of a mind to strip and clean it that is!)

Peugeot absolutely were famed for lightweight frames and were innovators if anything , one of the first companies to produce a carbon fibre frame , I refer to the early 80's Fibre de Carbon ( based on the Vitus 979 but Peugeot made their own frame tubes stiffer and slightly larger than the Vitus frame ) the Peugeot Prestige Frame shop were building the team frames and custom order frames in 753 from around 1980 and the Peugeot catalogues featured models such as the alloy Duralinox 979 and Comete models, also the PSV10 which featured Vitus 980 steel frame that was actually lighter than 531SL / 531 Pro. Whilst at the lower end of the spectrum there were many clunkers granted they had a sportier feel and stance than the equivalent Raleighs and Falcons and of course Peugeot had mastered the internal brazing technique that gave even the lower end bikes a flush tidy lugless joint on their own 103 Carbolite tubes.

 

[Canuk]

Peugeot absolutely were famed for lightweight frames and were innovators if anything , one of the first companies to produce a carbon fibre frame , I refer to the early 80's Fibre de Carbon ( based on the Vitus 979 but Peugeot made their own frame tubes stiffer and slightly larger than the Vitus frame ) the Peugeot Prestige Frame shop were building the team frames and custom order frames in 753 from around 1980 and the Peugeot catalogues featured models such as the alloy Duralinox 979 and Comete models, also the PSV10 which featured Vitus 980 steel frame that was actually lighter than 531SL / 531 Pro. Whilst at the lower end of the spectrum there were many clunkers granted they had a sportier feel and stance than the equivalent Raleighs and Falcons and of course Peugeot had mastered the internal brazing technique that gave even the lower end bikes a flush tidy lugless joint on their own 103 Carbolite tubes.

They made some shockers in '7000' aluminium, I've had a Columbus Peugeot also and it weighed a brick. I don't know what happened to Peugeot after the late 80's but they definitely dropped the ball.