Re: [CR]Unique steel crankset...British?

(Example: Framebuilders)

To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 13:48:51 -0400
Subject: Re: [CR]Unique steel crankset...British?
From: "Steven m Johnson" <grisha2@juno.com>


On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 08:53:09 -0400 Warren Young <wyoung@stonehenge.ca> writes:
> I have an unmarked NOS 46 tooth steel crankset that appears to be of
> good quality and is very unusual
> . . .
> threadless bottom brackets.I thought it was the same size as the
> Baylis-Wiley sleeved BB's but this is not the case.
>
> Any ideas what this is and what model of bike it may have come from?

Warren,

Take a look at this webpage and see how it matches up to the BB pictured:

http://c8m47.pi.tu-berlin.de/tandem/fixedgear.html

It is German, and I had one on my commuter bike in Germany made by the in country Hercules company in Nuremburg (not to be confused with the British Hercules which was imported into the US).

Steven M. Johnson, Chesapeake, VA http://members.home.com/grisha1/index.htm

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