Re: [CR]Lyotard Pedal Axles

(Example: Racing:Beryl Burton)

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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 09:01:39 -0700
To: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Jan Heine" <heine93@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Lyotard Pedal Axles


>
>Anyone ever noticed an extreme variation in the actual diameter of
>Lyotard pedal axles?
> What about Campy, Zeus and Japanese pedals? Somehow I would expect
>those to be more consistent than Lyotard, but I could be wrong.

Consistent maybe, but FR-threaded Campy NR pedals often seem to be a bit larger than other FR pedals, and hard to install in FR cranks that had other , non-Campy FR pedals in them before.

If you do install pedals that are a bit large, make sure to use enough grease on the threads, otherwise, the steel threads may weld themselves to the alloy cranks, with disastrous results. (Grease should be used in any case, but this is even more important in these cases.)
>Another reason TA can "play the cracks" in the specs like this is
>that the French thread pitch of 1.25 mm is 20.3 TPI, damn close to
>the English 20 TPI. For all this to work for TA, they will have to
>have much closer manufacturing tolerances than
> Lyotard, although that probably isn't too difficult to do.

In their day, Lyotard pedals were considered disposable. You rode them for a few seasons and then replaced them... Which is why the earliest models are somewhat rare today.

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Jan Heine, Seattle
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