Originally Posted by
kroozer
If you're enough of a fanatic to ride 1950's bikes, then of course you're not going to want to use modern pedals on them. Berthet's were around back then, and there were several other older Lyotard models, although maybe they used the same spindles... I've seen British pedals like Barelli and Brampton sell on Ebay for reasonable amounts. I got a set of NOS 460's for my Motobecane, they have straight rather than serrated cage edges, which I have not seen elsewhere. I haven't ridden them much yet, and now I'm kind of wondering if I should.
Yes, I have a pair of Berthets on my Hetchins Nulli and I have just bought a pair of Brampton B8s from Hilary Stone's new site for what I think is a reasonable £49. I've just been offered a very good pair of Conloy Asp platform pedals (about 2/5ths of the way along the strip here -
http://www.speedplay.com/index.cfm?f...almuseum.quill ) by a dealer friend in the UK for £130, which is more than I'm used to paying for pedals. As the friend says, 'Pedals and saddles are the first things to wear out, hence they are expensive.' I'm undecided...
The Berthet spindles are different from the 460D's, being just over half an inch shorter. Doesn't mean they can't break, though. These Berthets are from the 50s, though, and I imagine more money was spent on materials back then. The 460Ds that have broken have all been much later, from the 70s and 80s, before Lyotard stopped trading.
You are completely right about not wanting to use modern pedals on my 50s bikes. Part of the joy of riding such machines for me is the fact that they are the same age, or older, than me and that they are still going strong. Using the 460Ds is actually cheating a bit as that version of the pedal came out in the early 70s, but they look the part. My fault for being a cheapskate.
