[CR]TA pedals

(Example: History:Norris Lockley)

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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:34:25 -0700
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Jan Heine" <heine@mindspring.com>
Subject: [CR]TA pedals

I once saw a letter (1950 or 1952) from Alex Singer to a client/rider on his team suggesting the brand-new pedals by TA as potential equipment for his new randonneur bike. Compared to the then-standard Lyotards, they featured a roller bearing on the inboard side, a cartridge ball bearing outboard, and were considered absolutely mindboggling in their design, execution and quality. Mindboggling, too, was the cost, at about 20% or so of the cost of a complete Alex Singer randonneur. So few were sold, and that is why they are so rare.

How they managed to get the price down to the current $ 130-150 is another question... Or maybe all other parts have gone up. The current TA pedals are mechanically the same, I believe, but they do look different.

Jan Heine, Seattle