RE: [CR]Broken Retro Crank & Cupertino Swap

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From: "Stockwell, Brad" <BRAD.STOCKWELL@mpp.cpii.com>
To: "'chuckschmidt@earthlink.net'" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: RE: [CR]Broken Retro Crank & Cupertino Swap
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 14:08:36 -0700


To CR Folk:

BROKEN CRANK The Wheelsmith store in Palo Alto (now gone to glory, alas) used to have a display case with those broken parts scattered around in it, with a sign that said: Campy parts can break! Ric also had a Cinelli 1-R stem in there with a fine stress crack stretching across the bottom of the bar clamp.

My own 175mm NR right crank arm looks identical to picture #006: the pedal hangar cracked right through the middle in Nov '98. The resulting road-rash taught me to use modern cranks on the bikes that get heavy use.

CUPERTINO SWAP The annual Cupertino Bike Swap (which occurs in the parking lot behind the Cupertino Bike Shop) will be held on Sunday, April 29 this year from 10:00am to 4:00pm, $2 to get in. Although smaller than the gigantic Marin swap, I usually end up getting better stuff at Cupertino. The proceeds go to ROMP, "Rational Organized Mountain Pedalers" or something that sounds like that. Last year there were stands operated by Bradley Wohl of American Cyclery/BikeTrader, and also Janis Johnson of Vintage Velos - among many others.

Brad Stockwell Palo Alto

-----Original Message----- From: Chuck Schmidt [mailto:chuckschmidt@earthlink.net] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 1:31 PM To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: [CR]Broken Retro Crank Website

Slightly sobering website with broken cranks-- http://pardo.net/pardo/bike/pic/fail/FAIL-001.html

Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, California

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