Re: [CR] Earliest 5-pin cranks?

(Example: Production Builders:Cinelli:Laser)

From: <Stronglight49@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:48:00 -0500
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR] Earliest 5-pin cranks?


Jan Heine wrote:

"Tank was a separate company. They made pedals and freewheels, as well as hubs and cassette hubs. The latter were marketed under the Cyclo-Tank name."

As always, Jan is a wealth of valuable info. ~ Thanks! Here is another image, again enlarged from Page 45 of The Data Book.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3516/3238926899_7a4268731a_o.jpg

This appears just above the image [below] of these "ROSA" chainring sets - which Jan has now correctly identified.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3436/3239042190_822ff99b35_o.jpg

I had only seen the name "TANK" previously stamped into the cages of their pedals. Obviously the company was more diverse than I would have imagined. The illustration of the hubs with the "Bloc Demontable" shows one affiliation they had with Cyclo just as Jan had mentioned.

BOB HANSON, ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, USA

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