Re: [CR] American-made bike components, was: New Equipment Failure Rate

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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 20:43:03 -0400
From: "Joe Bender-Zanoni" <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR] American-made bike components, was: New Equipment Failure Rate
To: Jim Merz <jimmerz@qwest.net>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
References: <000201c25073$ee1a7e50$0200000a@biker2>

Crescent was originally an American brand that moved to Sweden. They just kept the tooling from 1910 I guess.

Joe B-Z
GNNJ

----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Merz
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 6:23 PM
Subject: FW: [CR] American-made bike components, was: New Equipment Failure

Rate

> Not true! Crescent bicycles came with a Swedish made one piece crank
> during the bike boom. Don't remember who made it, but not Ashtabula.
>
> Jim Merz
> Bainbridge Is. WA
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [CR] American-made bike components, was: New Equipment
> Failure Rate
>
> Excel derailers? What about the classic "Ashtabula cranks". Nothing
> else
> like it. Of course, nothing else would want to be.
>
> Mike Hall
> Davison, Michigan