Dear Andrew, Perhaps you could give this a try:
Pourriez-vous decrire l'effilage des manivelles SVP?
All the best, Peter Rogers Barrie, Ontario, Canada
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From: "andrewhartline" <andrewhartline@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 12:58 AM
To: "classicrendezvous" <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR] French vocabulary help: le mot francais pour "taper"
> Hi all, first time poster here with a French velo-vocabulary question.
> I want to ask a Francophone eBay seller, en francais, how the tapers
> are on a set of old cranks; how do I do it? Sheldon's English-French
> bicycle dictionary doesn't have an entry for "taper". If you can give
> me a complete, semi-grammatical sentence to write to the seller with,
> that would be terrific as well as my high school French is quite rusty
> and I would prefer not to confuse him.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew Hartline
> Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada