Bruce, I took a look at the items offered by this seller and it is an impressive pile, by all means grab what you need and to heck with the "original versus re-pop" debate.
I do have a set of the final run - supposedly 60th anniversary - TA Cyclotouriste crank arms purchased from Velo-Orange and they are identical in every way to earlier versions of the same crank arms. The chainrings are now laser etched with the new logo, as opposed to being stamped with the old chainwheel badge, but it is the same old equipment that "works good and lasts a long time".
I have a set of TA crankarms that I purchased in 1971 and they are still going strong. Just think about that - 35 years old. I have huge respect for this company and the innovative people behind it. Their stuff is the best, and I'll definitely bid on a couple of Galibier-95's items.
TA's web site is at
http://www.specialites-ta.com/
and they've got a new jersey out that I will just have to order. Tres cool baybee.
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Mark Petry
mark@petry.org
206 618 9642
Bainbridge Island, WA
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Bruce ecrit
Listers; there is a group of new TA cranksets being offered on eBay and
they look like the classic ones of the CR period. Jan Heini (sp?) stated
in the Vintage Quarterly that TA was re manufacturing some model of the
crankset. They seem very nice and the abundance of them on there now has
shown a reasonable bid price.
I am not an expert on the TA items, but wanted the Francophiles to
peruse the auctions and let me know their opinion on the cranks.
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Mark Petry
mark@petry.org
206 618 9642
Bainbridge Island, WA
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