Re: [CR] campy pista crank question, and does anyone have a set to trade or sell?

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Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:59:37 -0500
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] campy pista crank question, and does anyone have a set to trade or sell?
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marc garcia wrote:
> Well I was overhauling my raleigh track bike when I
> noticed two things, 1) the drive side crank arm is
> cracked right where the arm meets the spider. Well of
> course I was dispointed but glad it didn't crack while
> I was riding it.

Bummer. But a known failure mode for Campy cranks of that era.

2) I noticed the non drive side is
> marked strada and not pista. Is this normal or did the
> previous owner switch out the crank arm at some point?

Well, it *should* say PISTA, but for all practical purposes there's really no difference between the STRADA and PISTA left arms. For that matter, the right arms are also identical, except the shelf to hold an inner ring is machined off on the PISTA arms.

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