RE: [CR]odd campy pista threading

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Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 11:13:25 -0400
To: minneman@onomy.com, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "Sheldon Brown" <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
Subject: RE: [CR]odd campy pista threading


Scott Minneman wrote:
>Ok, enough poking around has revealed that Campagnolo simply used
>PISTA-badged cranks as the left-side drive cranks on their tandem
>equipment....and then they threaded it backwards from a standard PISTA
>crank. So, I have an orphaned crank from a Campy-equipped tandem (were
>these used on the 70s Paramount tandems?).
>
>Anybody in dire need of such a thing?

Why not use it yourself? I used a Sugino tandem crank on my back-asswards Gunnar, see:

http://sheldonbrown.org/gunnar

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