Peugeot CPX - NO MORE BLACK WALLS LOL

[rodriguez]

Just picked this up.

Frame is stamped CPX400

Was being used as a display for the Giro D'Italia, old bikes were sprayed pink and placed along the route on roundabouts etc.

Should I clean it up and use it as an OS rider or will I leave as yard art   

[griff]

Poor thing 

[McQUEEN]

the shame of it...

[Retrodan72]

Some people want locking up, no respect. 

Do you think it will strip easily enough? 

[Church]

Use acetone to remove the spray bomb if the frame is chromed under   

[Picklez]

bl@@ming ell 

[fischflo]

i was thinking about this, but i was sure you were joking, it just didn't make any sense to me ...still doesn't 

yard art...   or just ride it!  ...nah, deffo restore

[rodriguez]

If it hadn't been painted pink and put on a roundabout it would never crossed my path.

I don't reckon the spray bomb has done any damage would have been pissed off if it had destroyed the decals but doesn't seem to have any.

Reckon it will come off easy enough and the chrome seems to be underneath, few decentish parts on it which suggests it was one of the models up the range, seat is Condor Supercorsa, Takagi cr-mo crank & spider Victor copy mks pedals, SR stem.

A lot of the parts have been changed over the years, the wheels are an old chrome pair that don't match, rear brake is a weinmann think it should have been lee chi MX900 chi like the front.

Have to say I'm rather pleased as I've had bits sitting and was going to sell them because I'd nothing to put them on 

Here's a few more pics and the serial number, if anyone can pin down the model I'd be grateful.

[fischflo]

wow, looks like a rather easy and fun job in large parts, just hope those wern't anno'd rims because this would look sweet with some ....those aren't mks graphies, are they?

[rodriguez]

wow, looks like a rather easy and fun job in large parts, just hope those wern't anno'd rims because this would look sweet with some ....those aren't mks graphies, are they?

rims are old chrome jobs and the pedals are victor graphite copies

[fischflo]

i'm sure there are decals available for this (401 at least)

yep, were these, 35 Euros, don't know how expensive that is

http://www.frogbmx.com/product.php?id_product=385

here's the spec of the cpx 400

[rodriguez]

Cheers Flo, going by that I'm thinking it was the CPX 401 and the components on it are suggesting that too, the 401 came with lee chi mx brakes and victor graphite copies standard as far as I can find out.

[fischflo]

so there is this Giro D'Italia crew driving around, collecting decent os bmx, spraybombing them pink and placing them on roundabouts... in Northern Ireland .... nice score!

[rodriguez]

so there is this Giro D'Italia crew driving around, collecting decent os bmx, spraybombing them pink and placing them on roundabouts... in Northern Ireland .... nice score!

yup 

cheers flo   

[RadRat]

Nice find! Stripping it will be honestly fun. Almost like archeologists at a bone site... 

[BMX1973]

Look forward to see how this turns out.

[griff]

I mentioned the poor pink bike to my half-cousin who had told me she had the Giro d'Italia pass by near her home

She also sent me a couple of pics from Loughgall of other 'victims'

[rodriguez]

Looks like a Raleigh Twenty in the first pic I could use that but.............

I can't have it as I'm banned from bringing any more pink bikes home   

[griff]

Did you have to pay for yours, or was it simply 'rescued'? 

[fischflo]

...wondering if THEY paid for them ...to me it looks like they just had too much molokko

[rodriguez]

AFAIK they were all scrap bikes left at the dumps or the recycling depots, the councils involved stumped up the cash for the paint jobs.

[rodriguez]

Well started to strip the spraybomb this morning.

Liberal coating of synstrip





Then a little blast with the pressure washer.







more later......

[griff]

Bet your mrs was happy with all that pink shit stuck on the garden fence 

Excellent work, more pics please

[rodriguez]

Bet your mrs was happy with all that pink shit stuck on the garden fence 

Excellent work, more pics please

Yeah right   

When I had the pressure washer all put away I had to get it back out again and clean that, it was then I decided to fook off to the garage.

[rodriguez]

Well I was going to use citric acid after looking at the price of it I decided to use some oxalic acid I already had.

Looks a lot better than what it's like up close.







Chrome is not perfect and it'll only polish up so far but I'm not really worried as it'll only be getting a light polish and a rub with the oily rag before I build it.