[CR]re:Please help ID french crankset

(Example: Production Builders:Peugeot:PX-10LE)

Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:14:44 -0400
From: "Harvey Sachs" <hmsachs@verizon.net>
To: classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR]re:Please help ID french crankset

Pat - I'm not an expert on French compoentry, but I'd bet Brian Bayliss's favorite donut that you have a DuPrat crankset. If the arms are slender and octagonal in cross section, pull a pedal and look through the hole at the interior of the crank arm. If it is hollow, you have a beautiful and wonderful top-of-the-line unit. It will weigh about 3 gm (1/10 oz) more than a TA aluminum crank arm, if I recall correctly.

If you don't want it, perhaps because of some chrome issues, I have a special adoption program for these...

harvey sachs mcLean va. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

On a Jeunet I recently acquired, the 3-pin steel crankset is stamped 'aduprat universel'. What does it mean, and who made it? Also, the handlebar stem is marked 'GUID'. It is hollow through the top...I can see the fixing bolt. Is the stem an AVA?

Any responses would be appreciated.