Greetings,
Warning: Newbie alert Is top posting the norm around here?
A Gipiemme Track crank, (the bike has a decal date of Jan, 1981)
Notice the generous radius between the arm and spider of this Campy look
alike.
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Marcus Coles London, Ontario, Canada
Bikerdaver@aol.com wrote:
>Hey all,
>I can agree with Greg in that I have never broken a Campy crank and I think
>as Mike K. correctly said, all vintage cranks have the possibility of failure.
>Personally, I think an additional "missing point" is that other Italian
>manufacturers, i.e., Gipiemme, were well ahead of the curve as compared to Campy in
>this regard. I have owned and used a 1980 vintage GPM crank that had extra
>"beefiness" (for lack of a better word) at the crank arm/spider arm junction.
>Many of you already know that Campy didn't start making any design changes to
>their SR/NR cranks until appearance of the "non-fluted"/"laser-etched logo"
>cranks; a good 5 years After GPM introduced their answer to this problem. Just
>something to think about when valuing vintage components.
>Here is one of these GPM cranks I refer to on ebay. I would only add that I
>do not know the vintage of this crankset and it appears that the seller does
>not either.
>
>http://ebay.com/<blah>
>=1
>
>cheers-
>Dave Anderson
>Cut Bank MT