[CR]Why Zeus cranks used French pedal thread?

(Example: Framebuilders:Rene Herse)

To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Bianca Pratorius" <biankita@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 15:48:35 -0400
Subject: [CR]Why Zeus cranks used French pedal thread?

I was surprised to see that a Zeus crank from the early 80's used smaller French threading for the pedal. If Zeus made Campy copies, why didn't they use English (standard) threading for the pedals? Now I have a pair of Zeus track pedals all cleaned up and ready to use but no bike nor crank to mount it to.

Garth Libre in Miami Fl USA