Not true! Crescent bicycles came with a Swedish made one piece crank during the bike boom. Don't remember who made it, but not Ashtabula.
Jim Merz Bainbridge Is. WA
-----Original Message----- From: classicrendezvous-admin@bikelist.org [mailto:classicrendezvous-admin@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of Mhall9150@aol.com Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 2:51 PM To: GPVB1@cs.com; classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: [CR] American-made bike components, was: New Equipment Failure Rate
Excel derailers? What about the classic "Ashtabula cranks". Nothing else like it. Of course, nothing else would want to be.
Mike Hall
Davison, Michigan