Ride, Wrench, Swap, Race
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Northern California
Posts: 9,194
Bikes: Cheltenham-Pedersen racer, Boulder F/S Paris-Roubaix, Varsity racer, '52 Christophe, '62 Continental, '92 Merckx, '75 Limongi, '76 Presto, '72 Gitane SC, '71 Schwinn SS, etc.
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Unless you know for sure that this frame is made from straight-gage gaspipe, don't do any kind of welding on it, or you may catastrophically weaken the tubing!
Peugeot did use spot welds on their pre-1979 (pre-103) UO8 frames, but they used relatively thick-walled gaspipe tubing!
The bike sure is coming along nicely, and I love those CLB calipers.