Originally Posted by
Robvolz
Didn't know. Avocet made them. Thought they are very sought after. I've had a couple requests for them from prominent members on this forum.
I'll look for cracks now.
Ofmega made them, apparently. Here's a post from
this previous thread.
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.Ofmega did make the Avocet cranks. There are, indeed, two variations. The ones with the unique spindles are quite distinctive, and considerably smaller in dimensions of the square taper and crank socket. There's no mistaking when you have one, because the cranks just won't fit onto a regular spindle. After a certain date ( which I have either forgotten or never knew), Ofmega went to a standard size socket and spindle.
"I have at least one of the Avocet triples here. The smallest ring is mounted on holes that are drilled and tapped into the spider arms. I imagine a lot of them have broken by now, because this seems to be asking those aluminum spider arms to do an awful lot considering the amount of material in their cross section. I don't recall what it took in terms of spindle length, but I decided to run it without the smallest ring anyway. I just used the spindle that came with it on the bicycle it was on."