Cycles Peugeot attached aluminum labels to some of its frames from 1972 to 1978. From 1972 to early 1976 the bicycle serial number was stamped into the metal label. The labels were a metal strip riveted to the bottom bracket. The labels had numbers only stamped into them. From 1972…

Cycles Peugeot was one of several companies owned by members of the Peugeot family. By the 1970s Cycles Peugeot was a long established and large manufacturer of bicycle frames and the assembly of complete bicycles at Beaulieu, outside Valentigney near the Swiss boarder. In 1972 Cycles Peugeot purchased a second…

Cycles Peugeot in the mid-1970s was manufacturing and exporting a large volume of bicycles. It had two manufacturing facilities. This was no doubt a challenge to manage. Up to 1976, the frame number and serial number were the same thing. The frame number stamped into the frame of the bicycle…

A factory at Romilly-sur-Seine was purchased by Cycles Peugeot in 1972. It had been used to manufacture refrigerators and therefore need some time to convert to bicycle production. Early in the production history of this factory, bicycle frames had a production code stamped into the bottom bracket shell. All but…

With vintage bicycles many people want to know: “How old is the bicycle?” The answer to this question keeps changing because the age of anything keeps increasing. The better question is: “When was the bicycle made?” From the date of origin you can always determine the current age of something.…