re: [CR]Campag Alloy 3-Pin Crank, 1978 ?

(Example: Framebuilders:Alberto Masi)

Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 06:27:35 -0500
From: "Harvey Sachs" <hmsachs@verizon.net>
Subject: re: [CR]Campag Alloy 3-Pin Crank, 1978 ?
To: teaat4p@yahoo.com, classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>


Richard Cielec asks about a crankset:

I have that crank from a dumpster dive Trek of Ishiwata tubing. I have never seen a Campag 3-pin before and know nothing about them other than finding replacement rings - hahahaha. Is this a 3-pin Gran Sport ? Anyway...

Looks like a very crude piece o' work for a Campagnolo component.

Were these O.E.M. on any bikes ?

++++++++++++++++ My memory, which may not be terribly reliable, were that these were sort of second-source for some mid-level bikes. Sort of what you used when you couldn't get the NERVAR Star or TA three-arm. I haven't often seen them, but the finish wasn't bad. Yours may have had a hard life before moving to the dumpster. Their beefiness, though, made them look really klutzy when compared with the lovely, elegant Campy steel 3-arm equivalent with alloy rings.

harvey sachs
mcLean va