> >From Joel Metz wonderful SPECIALITES T.A. site...
><http://www.blackbirdsf.org/ta>
>"jeux de grain" allen bolt and pin for "criterium" crankarms
>
>and Joel's TA Timeline...
><http://www.blackbirdsf.org/ta/timeline.html>
>Criterium crankset introduced in 1959.
From the CR archives:
TA cranks are mentioned several times in Le Cycliste:
Announced around 3/1959, but not yet available (and they didn't say it would be cottered!).
January 1960: article on design, with cottered pear-shaped axles.
9/1960: Definitive Rebour article on the TA cranks.
11/1962: Square taper cranks announced.
I have seen the pear-shaped cranks on 1961 and 1960 bikes.
To which I add: The 1961 Goeland Camping bike in "The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles" has those cranks. -- Jan Heine, Seattle Editor/Publisher Vintage Bicycle Quarterly c/o Il Vecchio Bicycles 140 Lakeside Ave, Ste. C Seattle WA 98122 http://www.vintagebicyclepress.com