On May 11, 2007, at 2:22 PM, Charles T. Young wrote:
> I think that we need to give Zeus a good bit more credit: they made
> both BSC and metric (14mm) cranksets and pedals. French-threaded
> hubsets and seat posts in dimensions to suit metric sized 531
> framesets were also made by Zeus.
>
> I think that they were very aware of their niche in the upgrade
> market and chose to make their components that would work for all
> bikes including French ones. I'm pretty certain that the majority
> of their production wasn't groupsets going to manufacturers to meet
> "catalog" specifications of stock bikes.
>
> Charlie Young
Looking in the Campagnolo catalogs... some of their cranks were available with French pedal threads "upon request." They also normally stocked French threaded headsets and bottom brackets and hubs.
Chuck Schmidt
South Pasadena, CA USA
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