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Originally Posted by veganwar
Phil does indeed make french threaded cups for their bb. I had one in the Peugeot track bike I had for a bit. I believe they are the only option for a sealed bb. Sugino makes french cups for the 75 bb as well. They may be the only other option really out there other than pretty old stuff.

French headsets were also a little different and finding french stems is apparently an even bigger pain in the ass. Fortunately, you can take a regular stem and basically sand off a very small amount and make any stem fit. This is only what I have been told or read and I have not tried it. For some reason, my Peugeot had a fork and headset that accepted standard quill stems.

You could also just replace the fork and headset to eliminate that problem.
i lost the expander wedge to my french stem, so i sanded a standard one down. sheldon brown says you have to take off something like .2mm from the diameter, but i found i had to do far more. it works, though.
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