re: [CR]lyotard bearings and collecting

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Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 17:14:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Fred Rednor" <fred_rednor@yahoo.com>
Subject: re: [CR]lyotard bearings and collecting
To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <47F54BD4.2010502@verizon.net>


Another thing about these pedals:

I'm absolutely convinced there was no difference between those that supposedly had French threads and those which supposedly had British threads. Well, perhaps the boxes had different markings, but the small number of axles I measured seemed indistinguishable between the 2 types.

Maybe there was a difference early on, but I'm taking about the late 1970s and early '80s. It's one reason I refused to keep using then with cranks that had English threading. Cheers, Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia (USA)
> I really like the Lyotard Berthet, too, but it is perhaps
> the most "idiosyncratic" pedal around (except the Phil
> platform?).
>
> --> Darned near unique, first platform pedal I ever saw.
> --> Like things Huret, predominantly sheet-metal, cheap
> to fabricate and even to assemble.
> --> Easy to use, just kick the kick plate and foot is in.
> --> Works better than anything else of the era for those
> of us with wide feet.
>
> BUT:
> --> it was a disposable pedal, not particularly easy to work
> on, or made
> with very durable cones and cups. Indeed, as I've recounted
> on these
> pages before, we came to grief touring with these when one
> loosened up
> badly (at aluminum plates pressed to steel barrel) on tour in
> the
> Appalachians. 14 mm, not 9/16th. We held it together with
> radiator
> clamps for the rest of the tour.
> --> Poor standardization. I've seen at least 3 different axle
> lengths -
> and that's just from the inner cone to the end of spindle. I
> can think
> of two lengths of pedal threading (short for steel cranks,
> long for
> aluminum), and the late ones (?) used a forged (?) hex hex
> attachment
> instead of the slots of the earlier (?) ones.
>
> To summarize: a great cheap pedal, but far from my first
> choice any longer for a decent riding pedal.

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