Re: steel cotterless cranks, was Re: [CR]Steel cranks, aluminum cranks...

(Example: Framebuilders)

Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:28:04 -0500
To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "Mark Stonich" <mark@bikesmithdesign.com>
Subject: Re: steel cotterless cranks, was Re: [CR]Steel cranks, aluminum cranks...
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At 4/21/2007 08:32 PM -0400, Harvey Sachs wrote:
>The first example is the lovely and graceful 3-arm Campagnolo, which
>I think is called the "Gran Sport." Real eye-candy, forged, with
>aluminum rings. Although the mental gears are not spinning freely
>this afternoon, I also remember a fairly down-market Nervar steel
>cotterless that came on some Raleigh Super Courses.

I've got both of them, and to my eye the Campi arms are the prettiest pieces of metal to ever grace a bicycle.

Mark Stonich;
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