At 6:32 PM -0500 11/4/01, WTrikerider@cs.com wrote:
>I have just looked at the Berthet pedals on ebay and they look just like what
>I have always thought were Lyotard 23's. Am I guilty of bad information or
>are 23's just very similar to Berthet's?
Neither. "Marcel Berthet" is the model _name_ and 23 is the model _number_ of these pedals. I agree that they are one of the greatest designs ever, way better in design than any pedal made before the Shimano PDT-100, and unequalled for elegance of design.
I used to use these almost exclusively, until I caught the SPD disease...
Marcel Berthet was a great French racer. I believe he was the protagonist of the famous story of the broken fork repaired in a blacksmith's shop in the middle of the Tour de France.
Sheldon "Owns Several Very Well-Worn #23 Marcel Berthet Pedals" Brown
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