Re: [CR]Something for the Campytologists to Puzzle over ...

Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:48:39 -0800
From: "Kurt Sperry" <haxixe@gmail.com>
To: "Donald Gillies" <gillies@cs.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: [CR]Something for the Campytologists to Puzzle over ...
In-Reply-To: <200702140616.l1E6G9ex014551@cascade.cs.ubc.ca>
References: <200702140616.l1E6G9ex014551@cascade.cs.ubc.ca>
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

The Ebay link is now dead, but the photo hosting link still works.

I think I can recall seeing 11 and 22 in a box on Campy arms. Warranty replacements or something? The little star might just be to keep the crank spindle mystery "Z" stamps company.

Kurt Sperry Bellingham WA USA

On 2/13/07, Donald Gillies <gillies@cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
>
>
> http://www.auctiva.com/hostedimages/showimage.aspx?gid=250325&image=34930822&images=34930728,34930700,34930758,34930801,34930822,34930775,34930870,34930947,34930887&formats=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0&format=0
>
> http://ebay.com/<blah>
>
> A campagnolo crankset with the following date code :
>
> 172.5 PISTA [32] <fleur-de-lis>
>
> Is this a mythical frank-threaded PISTA crank where time ran backwards
> while they were making the date-mark, which changed from [33] to [32]
> halfway through the stamping process ?? Does this belong in the
> Smithsonian ??