[CR]Pre-1950s triples

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Ideale)

From: <brucerobbins@supanet.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 20:37:06 +0000
Subject: [CR]Pre-1950s triples


> Jan Heine wrote:
> Triples, while widely available from the 1940s onwards, often were
> considered superfluous, because hardly anybody needed that many
> gears.

Jan,

Apart from French cranks, were there any others that were widely available as triples pre-1950? I can't remember seeing any British-made cranks from the 40s set up as triples but I probably haven't been looking hard enough.

Bruce, one of those who needs that many gears in Dundee Scotland Signup to supanet at https://signup.supanet.com/cgi-bin/signup?_origin=sigwebmail