Originally Posted by
grant40
My Raliegh Super Course has a Viscount crankset on it that was there when I got it. I bet that crankarm is not really usable on a Viscount again.
My thoughts exactly - I bet it was torqued until that square was tapered.
Originally Posted by
bikemig
Good one.
That's why I like hanging around here...folks who actually get these references.
The others of my generation only wants speak about is this thing called the "1990s" as nostalgia.
Originally Posted by
Murray Missile
Could just be Lambert/Viscount chainwheels on square tapered TA Specialités Vis 5 crank arms, they're the same bolt pattern. I have a set I'm going to clean up and bolt to a set of Stronglight 49 Vis 5 arms for a '72 Gitane Interclub.
I doubt it. You find TAs with their original chrome and black stickers, or you find them with the sticker missing, but you don't find them with a copy of the Viscount/Lambert blackout sticker carefully re-added onto them.
Originally Posted by
Murray Missile
IIRC TA made the cranksets for Lambert/Viscount and the crank arms are identical except for the taper. As to the branding.........
I happen to like them. Pic is of another member's bike
That's mine.
Those are neither TA nor Stronglight arms - those are Sugino Pro Dynamic S. The rings were from a local BF member (who passed away a few years ago - may he rest in peace) who parted out his Viscount.
Pics that follow are circa 2009:
I believe the single ring that is on the Pro Dynamic arm is
not the correct Sugino ring, but from something else entirely.
This is the Velobase picture for the Sugino Pro Dynamic. No idea if these rings are new repops cashing in on the Rene Herse look or period to these arms.
The Viscount:
It was too rough for me, so I kept the bits I wanted and sold off the bike. The final build wound up as a singlespeed (for better or worse) with the bottom bracket tapped to 68mm with Nevar cranks and the mystery ring installed.
Originally Posted by
genejockey
Someone really, really needs to build a bike out of nothing but the best-known Death Components.
But, for the love of god, nobody ride it!!!
It exists. The Itera.
-Kurt