Re: [CR]On Zeus chainsets, french threaded

(Example: Production Builders)

Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 18:31:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]On Zeus chainsets, french threaded
To: haxixe@gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <75d04b480705111811p4cf4279qcfd86fd6e8d621cc@mail.gmail.com>
cc: "tom.ward@juno.com" <tom.ward@juno.com>
cc: "tom.ward@juno.com"

Well, my point is everyone copied everyone, but I think Zeus had an alloy-cogged FW before Campy. And Campy should have copied the Zeus 2000 gruppo. Zeus's use of Ti was inspired, Campy's was idiotic.

To me a crankset bolt circle is a pretty basic standard. Zeus was 120 mm and would take a 38T (and probably a 36T) ring. Campy was 151mm/45T, then 144mm/42T (OK 41T). Clone? What clone?

Regard,

Jerry Moos Big Spring, TX

Kurt Sperry <haxixe@gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/11/07, Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net> wrote: First of all, in my opinion Zeus was never a maker of Campy clones. The fact is all the European manufacturers, including Campy, were influenced by each others products. Zeus no more copied Campy than Campy copied Zeus or Simplex or Huret. This image of the all-powerful Campy copied by everyone else is just a baseless delusion. My recollection is the exact opposite, that Zeus was first and foremost a builder of shameless, almost exact copies of existing Campagnolo products, frequently right down to parts interchangability. Granted they did other things as well, but that's not really what they were known for in the day is it?

Where exactly did Campagnolo copy Zeus?

Kurt Sperry
Bellingham WA
USA