I believe that is correct. Some older editions of Sutherland's explicitly warn that Stronglight and TA cranks will often not work with Campy axles, but WILL work with JIS axles. So Sutherlands, at least, did not believe that Campy used JIS axles in the classic era.
Regards,
Jerry Moos Big Spring, TX
Mark Stonich <mark@bikesmithdesign.com> wrote:
At 2/25/2008 04:01 AM +0000, gpvb1@comcast.net wrote:
>I think there is (still) an awful lot of confusion out there
>regarding Campagnolo BBs. Prior to 1993, Campagnolo used JIS-tapered
>spindles, just like virtually everyone else did
Greg, A few minutes with an assortment of modern JIS and old Campi cranks and spindles will show you that if the older Campis weren't ISO they sure as heck weren't JIS either. What may be confusing you is that some of the better old Japanese cranks, like Sugino Mighty, were Campi compatible instead of JIS. Come to think of it the Sugino 75 Track crank still is.
Mark Stonich;
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