Re: [CR]Early TA crankset in Bulgier bike pics noted

Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 10:53:42 -0500
From: "Joe Bender-Zanoni" <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Early TA crankset in Bulgier bike pics noted
In-reply-to: <a05210666bf9275722233@[68.167.249.24]>
To: Jan Heine <heine93@earthlink.net>
References: <20051104.184226.18349.16500@webmail15.lax.untd.com> <436C593B.67AB4D57@earthlink.net>
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

So much for 1963 only. I looks like they they might have had availability from 1960-63 or so.

Has anyone else seen a custom Phil Wood BB for these like I have? I wonder if it was one off or if a few were made.

Joe Bender-Zanoni Great Notch, NJ

Jan Heine wrote:
>> >From Joel Metz wonderful SPECIALITES T.A. site...
>> http://www.blackbirdsf.org/ta
>> "jeux de grain" allen bolt and pin for "criterium" crankarms
>>
>> and Joel's TA Timeline...
>> http://www.blackbirdsf.org/ta/timeline.html
>> Criterium crankset introduced in 1959.
>
>
> From the CR archives:
>
> TA cranks are mentioned several times in Le Cycliste:
>
> Announced around 3/1959, but not yet available (and they didn't say it
> would be cottered!).
>
> January 1960: article on design, with cottered
> pear-shaped axles.
>
> 9/1960: Definitive Rebour article on the TA cranks.
>
> 11/1962: Square taper cranks announced.
>
> I have seen the pear-shaped cranks on 1961 and 1960 bikes.
>
> To which I add: The 1961 Goeland Camping bike in "The Golden Age of
> Handbuilt Bicycles" has those cranks.