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Super cool .... and just as rare ... Aluminum frame was not that common at all back then either !

I wondered who ended up with that. I bid on it out to about 250.00 and bowed out. Very nice grab though. I'm not one normally for sticking frames in display/shadow boxes BUT I think in this case I would probably try to find a semi matching fork and shadow box this one.

Thank you, gentleman!

Glad to see someone in the museum won it and put it in the bike list ! You out bid me on it as I wanted it for my Peugeot collection and to make sure it wouldn't get lost and forgotten about. Please keep us updated as you find information about it. I did a lot of research on it while the auction was going on. The fonts in the decals are correct but I’ve never seen Peugeot BMX decals like those. It would be amazing if someone found some paper work for it out there or at Race Inc. I couldn't find any catalog references for this bike but it's very possible Race Inc built it for Peugeot in a bidding war with other contractors and Peugeot took the business somewhere else for whatever reason. It's completely possible this was the only one ever produced.

Coast Wheels (CW) had a blue and gold CPX500 on a stand when you walked in the door. They were my sponsor shop and I drooled every time I went in for tune up's or to pick parts up.
I have an original blue with chrome non-leading edge forks that I plan to make into the display bike.

Last edited by bwheels (2013-01-17 10:43am)

wow. THIS is what the museum is for. Killer

Moejo wrote:

I believe your frame is a 1977 . I say this because in the Boys Life Magazine September 1977 page 26-27 there is a full page shot of a FMF rider and the frame is the same also I own the same frame and I have the Peugeot bars witht the orriginal dealer  brochure on the CPX - 500 . I looked at all the fine print and there is no date on it anywere . It looks like the CPX-500 also came im anodized gold . It also Has the CPX-300 that is a steel MX frame that was in red or blue

Anyway you could scan those pictures in? I would love to see them.

Moejo wrote:

I believe your frame is a 1977 . I say this because in the Boys Life Magazine September 1977 page 26-27 there is a full page shot of a FMF rider and the frame is the same also I own the same frame and I have the Peugeot bars witht the orriginal dealer  brochure on the CPX - 500 . I looked at all the fine print and there is no date on it anywere . It looks like the CPX-500 also came im anodized gold . It also Has the CPX-300 that is a steel MX frame that was in red or blue

Is that the picture of the brochure above in Ron's profile of the bike or is there something more also?

Sweet brochure dude.

Last edited by mxfan69 (2013-01-19 2:51pm)

Moejo wrote:

I believe your frame is a 1977 . I say this because in the Boys Life Magazine September 1977 page 26-27 there is a full page shot of a FMF rider and the frame is the same also I own the same frame and I have the Peugeot bars witht the orriginal dealer  brochure on the CPX - 500 . I looked at all the fine print and there is no date on it anywere . It looks like the CPX-500 also came im anodized gold . It also Has the CPX-300 that is a steel MX frame that was in red or blue

Moelo, the frame in that Boys Life shot is a '76 FMF Pro. Although there are similarities to this frame to the naked eye, there are many differences as well. Note the oval hole on front gusset, the bisecting weld on bottom oval (floval) tube and the abscence of a brake bridge on that FMF.  For these reasons, I believe my CPX-500 to be slightly later.  The oval (or floval) tube is one piece on my CPX-500, which based on what I've read, the tooling to make this in one peice (no welding) started in '78.

"When FMF was in the BMX business, the lug was formed by a rolled section of flat stock that weled to form a "floval" shaped tube."

"When SE Racing brought out a line of frames, that lug was made from a section of seamless floval tubing. Floval aluminum tubing didn't exist in BMX until SE Racing because it was SE that paid Alcoa to create tooling ot create the floval tubing". -Bill

"SE started offering frames in mid 78, I believe". -Brian Hayes

So simply put, bisecting weld = '76-'77, no bisecting weld = '78+

And another chapter on Bill Bastain's RA-7... beautiful piece of BMX history.