Re: [CR]Why Zeus cranks used French pedal thread?

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Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 15:57:35 -0400
To: Bianca Pratorius <biankita@comcast.net>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Sheldon Brown" <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Why Zeus cranks used French pedal thread?


Quoth Garth Libre:
>I was surprised to see that a Zeus crank from the early 80's used
>smaller French threading for the pedal. If Zeus made Campy copies,
>why didn't they use English (standard) threading for the pedals? Now
>I have a pair of Zeus track pedals all cleaned up and ready to use
>but no bike nor crank to mount it to.

Spain is a lot closer to France than it is to Italy...

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