Re: [CR]"con denti?" who knew

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Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 12:31:46 -0600
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: CR <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]"con denti?" who knew
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Chuck Schmidt wrote:

> I would be more inclined to believe that there was a demand for > toothed pedals in the 1950s when Campagnolo first made their pedals. > These would be riders who didn't use cleats. But yes, a big enough > distributor like Holdsworthy could probably order enough product to > make it worthwhile to Tulio Campagnolo to make such an item.

And the tooling investment wouldn't have been that much -- just modify the tool that stamps out the cage plates; the rest could be just like the other track pedals.

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA