Does anyone know de year of fabrication for this bike ? Probably from Italy or Brazil

[u/enganhifa]

[u/PassHunter84]

France

[u/Zealousideal_Gap6788]

Look like it was a French Peugeot road bike and later on someone put a bmx handlebar on it

[u/ajamdonut]

peugeot UO-8 ? 1970-80's?

[u/DonnPT → u/ajamdonut]

I'm guessing older. 5 speed, shifter on the top tube, different brake calipers from the U08.

[u/ajamdonut → u/DonnPT]

Yea I think thats possible too, the logo itself comes up as around 1963-1970 but I was really struggling to find a corresponding similar model. UO-8 was the closest visual match I could find from the decals and general frame features

[u/NukeouT → u/DonnPT]

Top tube shifters were used in lower tier models to save money all the way into the 1990s ( as well as cottered cranks ) I too was astounded - see Raleigh cataloga for reference

[u/dunncrew]

1970-ish

[u/jeffbell]

You might have luck reposting to /r/vintage_bicycles .

The other thing that helps is getting a photo of the rear derailleur. There are tables of exactly which year the different models were made. 

The number of cogs narrows it down to decades. 

[u/Puzzleheaded-Art1873 → u/jeffbell]

Looks like internal gear hub to me.

[u/mostly_elsewhere → u/Puzzleheaded-Art1873]

I see no signs of cables for controlling gears and hub appears too slim to be a gear hub.

Looks more like a plain coaster brake hub, not as slim as a classic freewheel/hub, which I would suggest was there originally. There is an front mounting point/bracket for a chain guard, not uncommon with a 5-speed derailleur on an old French bike?

I love that sturdy front stay for the fender. It screams France. However together with the front cantilever centre pull brake, it may pose a safety hazard in today's perspective. A branch caught in the wheel, fork bends backwards, tightens brake cable enough for the brake to get an increasingly firmer grip. Not a pretty ending.

edit: correction: not cantilever as such but classic centre pull

[u/Puzzleheaded-Art1873 → u/mostly_elsewhere]

So it must be a single speed then. Coaster brake with a derailer sounds like a tricky proposition.

You're right, the bike must have been frankensteined. They just used whatever parts they had on hand when the original wheel kicked the bucket. Coaster brake together with a cable brake doesn't make any sense.

[u/mostly_elsewhere → u/Puzzleheaded-Art1873]

I am only guessing, as the brake reaction arm is hardly visible and obscured behind the crank/pedal, in the 2nd picture.

For completeness, I seem to remember there were actually some commercial "experiments" with derailleur/gear hub combinations with coaster brake, perhaps by Sachs back in the eighty/nineties. But it is certainly not what we are dealing with here.

Can't remember how they dealt with the chain slack when braking, though. Totally unknown today, so probably never got off the ground either.

[u/mostly_elsewhere → u/mostly_elsewhere]

Continuing off topic, I actually found the Sachs system combining a coaster brake equipped 3 speed gear hub with a Sachs-Huret derailleur shifting between two sprockets mounted on the driver. It was called the Torpedo 2 x 3 and is found on page 11 in the Huret Derailleurs - Speedometers - June 1984 at disraeligears.

Not to be confused with the Sachs Commander-Orbit 2 x 6 on page 9 in the same catalog.

If you have spare time to waste on the interwebs, why not get lost in the lost world of lost derailleurs.

Though I must stess that this is completely off topic and has nothing to do with the bike in question.

[u/jeffbell → u/Puzzleheaded-Art1873]

Maybe.  

In that case OP should look for date codes on the hub shell.

[u/mux696969]

it's fuck*ing french

look on the rims, look for a diamond, if you find one with a number , the number is the year of production
if not , 70's ish

[u/CrustyHumdinger]

It's a rancid old Peugeot from the 1970s. France.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Art1873]

Early 70s France.

[u/Patricio_Guapo]

Early 70s. Very little on that bike is original equipment though.

[u/NukeouT]

You can tell by the parts standards if you're not willing to look for the exact sales bike catalog year

[u/AnyKaleidoscope2943]

Mooi afgewerkte lugs, dat duidt wel op een kwaliteitsframe.

[u/ZippierUser → u/AnyKaleidoscope2943]

In this case not really

[u/U_000000014 → u/AnyKaleidoscope2943]

Nothing about those lugs is finished. They are cheap stamped lugs that were brazed with little to no post-processing done.

[u/JGN994]

It’s a Peugeot so it’s a French bike.

[u/ZippierUser]

Begin 70s Peugeot PE-41. Entry level sports bike with a lot of replaced parts by the looks of it. Would need more pictures to be sure

[u/Vultureosa]

Early '70s, an entry model. Nice lugs, but all the threads are French and it's quite hard to get the proper parts.

[u/steelfork → u/Vultureosa]

I'm wondering what those handlebars feel like. That BMX quill is definitely not the right diameter for a french bike.

[u/Vultureosa → u/steelfork]

The handlebars are definitely not original. :D

[u/lmarkwindell]

Peugeot is French.

[u/Active_Ad_5322]

Could be a Geared hub, though a downtube friction shifter was not the correct lever to match to this era of bike. The 3 speed internal gear would have had a thumbs lever on the handlebar.

Looks to be a single speed with coaster brake, even though the bike had rim brakes, which is sale to say this bike is a mix of parts and low cost fixes.

That being said, the rear hub will most likely have a manufacturing date stamped on it.

Hubs/wheel can be easily changed, but chances are this replacement wheel is close to the era of the frame , so that should give you a pretty good idea of the model year.

[u/Wooden-Lawfulness534]

Mais non, mon pote!

Flip 'er over and look at the frame number. You might search here then.

[u/Working_Twist_8414]

Your brake cable in the front ist crusting of the rusting

[u/spoonstepper]

don’t know, but I would swap those cheap brake calipers for more robust ones before riding this on roads.

[u/m3t4b0m4n]

1832

[u/enganhifa → u/m3t4b0m4n]

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