For the best pedals, I vote for the Campy steel Record ones - the classic. They must be good - even the French use them ;-)
Campy parts are rare on bikes set up by well-informed randonneurs (different from those who followed the racing bike fashions of the 1970s). But many of them use Campy pedals, including Ernest Csuka, the owner of Cycles Alex Singer, on his personal bike. They are smooth, comfortable, last forever, and are easy to rebuild. Hard to beat that!
Add that they are plentiful and easy to find, came in BSC/ITAL and FR
threading, and you have a winner. Oh, and since they came out in 1957
(first used in the 1956 Tour, but those may have been prototypes
(with oiler holes)), they are appropriate for many of our bikes.
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Jan Heine, Seattle
Editor/Publisher
Vintage Bicycle Quarterly
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