Re: [CR]Re: Cotterless cranks

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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:08:56 -0500
From: "Joe Bender-Zanoni" <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Cotterless cranks
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
References: <17c.223d6719.2ccef23c@aol.com>


There are more of course.

Iver Johnson had something like the Rudge with a triangular taper from around 1900 to 1930.

Sugino made steel versions of the Sugino Maxy cranks. I used to tighten up the bolts and think "there is a crank to last a lifetime".

Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ


----- Original Message -----
From: StuartMX4@aol.com
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 5:12 PM
Subject: [CR]Re: Cotterless cranks



> Raoul
> You are forgetting Rudge Whitworth whose steel cotterless cranks were, I
> think, pre First World War. They were made with the left hand crank and the axle
> in one piece. I believe there were two designs for attaching the right hand
> crank and the chainwheel, one using serrations so that the joint was face to face
> and the other using splines. I am sure that someone who reads the list will
> know more about them.
> Stuart Tallack in West Sussex
> PS I just used the word 'axle' again.... those of the other persuasion should
> alter it to spindle!