for some nice clear photos (one blatantly stolen from the cr website) and rebour drawings of the ta pedals (both early and later/current versions), check out:
http://www.blackbirdsf.org/
many of the same features are retained in the later pedals - its just a more refined version of the same pedal, really. less blocky, more sculpted.
its still, in my opinion, one of the (if not *the*) nicest cage pedals ever produced.
theres a few other really nice pedal designs from about the same era, as well, from other manufacturers - the iso underslung pedals come to mind, as do the ones produced in-house by cave - see below)
http://bulgier.net/
-joel
>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
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i know what innocence looks like - and it wasn't there,
after she got that bicycle...