Re: [CR]Re: Swiss bottoms...cranksets, not girls

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From: "jerrymoos" <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
To: "Joe Bender-Zanoni" <joebz@optonline.net>, <InchPitch@aol.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Swiss bottoms...cranksets, not girls
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 23:15:02 -0600


S for Sinistre, of course, Italian for "left". Left-handed people are so persecuted - in Italy they are "sinister". At least in France they are merely "gauche".

Regards,

Jerry "often gauche" Moos
Houston, TX


----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Bender-Zanoni
To: InchPitch@aol.com
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 11:03 PM
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Swiss bottoms...cranksets, not girls



> On other or later days, the Swiss Campy cups were overstamped with an "S".
>
> Sugino Swiss fixed cups say "S" also.
>
> Joe Bender-Zanoni
> Great Notch, NJ
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <InchPitch@aol.com>
> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 11:41 PM
> Subject: [CR]Re: Swiss bottoms...cranksets, not girls
>
>
> > Loving the magnificient Swiss bikes of the 60s as I do, I have both a
> Swiss
> > thread Campagnolo BB set and a Stronglight Swiss thread BB set. The Campy
> > appears to have the standard embossed lettering on the fixed cup, 35X1,
> but
> > overstamped with a "G". The Stronglight cups have no markings whatsoever
> on either
> > side, inside or out.
> >
> > Bill Curtis
> > Costa Mesa, CA