Re: [CR] adapter for Shimano 600 AX pedals

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Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 11:05:24 -0700
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Thread-Topic: [CR] adapter for Shimano 600 AX pedals
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From: "Mark Bulgier" <Mark@bulgier.net>
To: <hsachs@alumni.rice.edu>, "Classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, <jamesabt@charter.net>
Subject: Re: [CR] adapter for Shimano 600 AX pedals

Harvey Sachs praised the AX pedal, but only faintly:
> [it] allows the cage to be lowered while keeping decent
> cornering angle. The result is to lower the rider's center
> of gravity just a bit, maybe a cm.
>
> Why the praise so faint? Just a few years earlier, Harlan Meyer
> of HiE had introduced the drop-platform pedal himself,

I like the Hi-E pedal design too, but we can't really give Harlan credit for being first to invent the lowered-platform pedal. The French Sanzax beat him by a couple decades -- and I wouldn't be surprised to find _they_ were not the first either...

(Sanzax = "Sans Axe" = French for "Look Ma, no axle"?)

Here's a pic: http://bulgier.net/pics/bike/Parts/Cranks_Pedals/SanzaxPedales1.jpg

Mark Bulgier
Seattle WA USA