Originally Posted by
cyclotoine
I'm sorry but I broke a vintage TA crank in a year of use, they were garbage and there are many who will flame me for it... Go ahead... the metal was crap, the manufacturing was primitive, they are collectors items...
Right on. I had a set of TA cranks on a Motobecane Grand Record. They flexed like crazy. Replaced them with Stronglight 93's. The French are known for soft metals. Heck, my mom broke her leg in France, a few years back, and had a steel pin put in her leg. When she got back home she noticed her leg wasnt straight. The darn pin had bent. Surgical steel! Another operation, more healing, what a mess.