[CR]Aluminum cranks

(Example: Humor:John Pergolizzi)

Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 23:55:48 +0900
From: "Dennis Young" <mail@woodworkingboy.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, <heine93@earthlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <CATFOODLWOL2bD6fpNH000011cc@catfood.nt.phred.org>
Subject: [CR]Aluminum cranks

Jan,

I'm wondering if Magistroni might deserve a place in your list? I know that they offered a alloy chain ring, but did they ever have a aluminum crank?

Dennis Young Hotaka, Japan
>
> I am interested in establishing an order of aluminum cranks,
> especially (but not limited to) those with square taper, based on
> their introduction. Here are the ones I know, with sources for the
> dating in parentheses:
>
> 1932 Stronglight (later called 49D) (from article in La Pedale
> Touristique and ads in same magazine)
> 1938 Rene Herse (introduced at that year's Technical Trials, reports
> in Le Cycliste)
> 1947 Duprat Maniplume (cottered) (introduced at that year's Technical
> Trials as "new," reports by Rebour in Le Cycle)
> 1958 Campagnolo Record (available 1959?) (reports by Rebour in Le Cycle)
> 1959/1960 TA with pear-shaped axle (cottered) (Rebour in Le Cycle and
> Le Cycliste)
> 1962 TA with square taper (Rebour in Le Cycle and Le Cycliste)
>
> I know there are other Stronglights as well, which came out before
> 1960. What about other makers? Is it really true that there were so
> few aluminum cranks until 1960?
>
> --
> Jan Heine, Seattle
> Editor/Publisher
> Vintage Bicycle Quarterly
> http://www.mindspring.com/~heine/bikesite/bikesite/
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