Originally Posted by pfe
I thought that Motobecanes used Swiss threading for their BBs and thus it wouldn't be much trouble. Wrong thinking?
this may be the case. when i took it in the lbs saw it was french and told me they'd have to do the copper thing, but the next time i saw it it had a shiny new shimano bb in it and i didnt ask questions (at the time i wouldn't have even known which questions to ask).