Lambert Triple crank ?
02-16-05, 08:41 AM
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Lambert Triple crank ?
I was browsing the forum, followed a thread about the Lambert "death fork" because of the name. To get a look at it I went to the link which showed the original Lambert ad. It looks like the bike had a triple crank, does anyone know this to be so?
I know indexed shifting had been kicking around since the 70's in one form or another, where was the origin of the triple crank?
I know indexed shifting had been kicking around since the 70's in one form or another, where was the origin of the triple crank?
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Offhand I would say the original triples were stronglight
cranksets, or TA Cyclotouriste (more likely) which were
designed for the French touring bikes (Singer, Herse etc.).
The original Lambert (and Viking and Reg Harris) did have
a triple up front. Indexed? nope it was friction shifting.
Marty
cranksets, or TA Cyclotouriste (more likely) which were
designed for the French touring bikes (Singer, Herse etc.).
The original Lambert (and Viking and Reg Harris) did have
a triple up front. Indexed? nope it was friction shifting.
Marty
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Specialties TA has been making triples (Cyclo-Touriste) since the 50s. I remember the Lambert cranksets and if memory serves they were quite derivative of the TA stuff (perhaps they were TA?). I also recall seeing a TA quad crankset from the 50s or 60s, or perhaps that was just a vivid dream. There are people on the forum that are very knowledgeable about this kind of stuff (like T-Mar) and could give us more specific info.
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The Viscount Pro cranks did indeed use the TA bolt pattern(a multitude of bolts). Chanirings were interchangable and I believe could be set up as doubles or triples
