When I worked for The Bikesmith we had a bunch of the crank arm replacement bits and even installed one. they just slip over the arm and then you just braze them up. Neat stuff. enjoy, Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Aldo Ross <swampmtn@siscom.net>
>>To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>>Date: June 15, 2001 9:45 AM
>>Subject: [CR]Pierce on eBay
>
>
>>Not entirely on topic for this list, but this eBay Pierce has a couple of
>interesting features, well worth a look:
>
>>http://ebay.com/<blah>
>
>>1) spring fork
>>2) splined crankset
>>3) is there a seatpost binder???
>>4) skinny stem
>>5) appear to be stainless steel fenders
>
>>I especially like the sellers comment about the broken crankarm - "It would
>be easy fix".
>
>Think this was a common failure mode for early cranks, so much so that I
>have seen replacement sections of crank arms advertised, for just this
>eventuality. If you lok at the photo again, you can see what appears to be
>a division between the main crank arm and the pedal end - repair is simply
>the removal of the old section and replacement with new. Some true
>mechanical ability is involved, but japanese manufacturers did not have as
>pernicious an influence back then.
>
>
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