Re: [CR]Campagnolo cottered bottom bracket spindle?

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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:03:29 -0800
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Campagnolo cottered bottom bracket spindle?
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Tom Hayes" wrote:
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> Did Campagnolo make a cottered bottom bracket spindle? I have been taking
> apart a Legnano bike to clean it up and get everything in working order.
> The cups and lock ring to the bottom bracket are unmarked, but the spindle
> has a "C" marked in the middle, and I remembered that I have another one in
> the garage and meant to ask the same question when I discovered it, but
> forgot. Lest I forget again, I am asking now with greasey fingers, mucking
> up the keyboard.

Campagnolo Timeline http://www.velo-retro.com

"1960 Catalog #14 is printed for the year-end trade shows. Included are the Record road and track groups comprising Record cotterless crankset (151mm bolt circle) and Gran Sport bottom bracket, small and large flange Record alloy one-piece hubs, seat post (now all alloy), Gran Sport headset, Record front derailleur, Gran Sport rear derailleur, Gran Sport pedals. Also in the catalog are the Gran Sport Group (includes Record front derailleur), Sport Group, ***Gran Sport cottered bottom bracket (note that there is no accompanying cottered crankset)***, Gran Sport track pedal with and without teeth, wood-boxed tool set, and the Saddle-Line alignment tool."

The cottered axle had the normal Campagnolo markings (Globe/Script logo). The axle you have with the "C" is something I've seen on my Olmo, Bianchi, Legnano bikes from the early 1960s and late 1950s.

My guess is that it isn't Campagnolo.

Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California

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