aka Tom Reingold
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: New York, NY, and High Falls, NY, USA
Posts: 40,498
Bikes: 1962 Rudge Sports, 1971 Raleigh Super Course, 1971 Raleigh Pro Track, 1974 Raleigh International, 1975 Viscount Fixie, 1982 McLean, 1996 Lemond (Ti), 2002 Burley Zydeco tandem
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When I visited my LBS (back in NJ) looking for cotters, the head mechanic said, "Cottered cranks!?" And he's an excellent mechanic. Some shops are just not set up to deal with old stuff like that, and they don't have an incentive to do so. It depends on where you are. This was in a very upscale suburb. A great many of their customers were triathletes and the like.