From: "Steve Clark" <steve@sjscycles.com>
> The only problem that I came across with a Mavic component was that the
> chainring bolts on the Mavic "dish-plate" chainset used to strip realy
> easy.
The French seem to have a "thing" about lubricating threads. All of the early TA Zephyr cranks shipped without oil in the threads holding the third ring on. The steel bolts were threaded into the aluminum spider very tight, and often wouldn't come out.
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