Starwatcher wrote:dobyman wrote:I picked this up last week. Its a 1969 Peugeot UO-8. I bought it from the orignal owner. Always kept indoors, still has the original Ventolux air pump with hose. There is one tiny nick in the paint on the rear frame, and thats it. MINT!
Hi Dobyman.
You must check this link http://www.sheldonbrown.com/velos.html i think the stem on your bike is unsafe.
I work ten years in a bike shop and i think i saw one time a stem like that broken.
Also the seat clip is reversed, the seat is too foward to be confortable.
Regards.
No disrespect to the dead.. but I am shocked that Sheldon would say that about a stem.
I am not familiar with the failure of that particular stem... but other problem stems I have experience with, fail catastrophically with no warning.
riding along and having the handlebars in your hands.. but no longer attached to the bike is not a very good thing.
I would think it is either safe or not safe.. How hard is to hard.. how fast is too fast.
Not that it is a safety issue.. but those derailleurs should be suspect. The plastic in them gets very brittle with age... hmm the shift levers also.