Charles,
Not sure if this helps at all but my brother owns a late 70s French market Gitane Vuelta that came new with a complete Shimano 600 group (with the so called arabesque details). The cranks on that were French threaded and the pedals were KKT I think. Therefore it wouldn't surprise me if your Suginos are indeed French threaded. It seems to me like you should be able to scar e up some French thread pedals cheap or have the cranks tapped out to standar d threads.
Merry Christmas,
Doug Van Cleve Chandler, AZ
On 12/24/05, C. Andrews <chasds@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> I'm attempting to put an old Gitane TDF into riding shape
> for a friend, and the poor thing really was trashed.
>
> It apparently came spec'd with a Sugino Mighty crank (the
> first-gen Campy knock-off). There are no pedals. The
> cranks are stamped: 47.8 171 M14.
>
> I cannot get a pair of standard BSC threaded pedals into
> them. Is it possible that Gitane spec'd japanese cranks
> with french pedal threading? Only the French would do
> something that demented... the threads look ok...not
> ruined..
>
> Any insights into this problem would be appreciated. Most
> unfortunately, I have no Sugino cranks around here right
> now, and I don't want to waste a set of Record cranks on
> this one..
>
> Thanks.
>
> Charles Andrews
> SoCal