So some of you will remember the white Pugeot I've been working on over winter break.

Some of you won't.

It's a Pug mixte. I was cleaning it up, and disassembled the front chainwheel parts, just some nuts and bolts, but failed to tighten one of the bolts all the way.

This one:


It fell out while riding, I discovered when I got home tonight, and I've fudged a pinchy bolt for the hole for now, but one thing led to another, like always.

The chainring is slightly bent, a huge pet peeve of mine.
I could remove them all, or replace the crankset,

but if I did that I'd want three-piece cranks.

"If you give a mouse a cookie..."

So I've been thinking about switching the whole mess to a simple three-piece crankset.

But then the bottom bracket is French threaded, a potential hitch-




My readings and research on this has led me to lots of technical jargon and numbers and diameters and thread spacing and pitching and... blah!

Keep it simple.

In plain language, can I get help/advice on the easiest way to make this thing a three-piece crankset?
I'm so done with cotters.

-Nick

PS- I was looking at Velo Orange's Edco French thread BB, but $88 seems a little much, so I suppose that's a "like," not a "I'm going to spend a week of work on this."


-Nick (again)