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Some French bicycles, notably many Motobécane models, used Swiss thread bottom brackets. These have the same thread and diameter as French, but use a left thread for the fixed cup.
This makes life interesting when you need to remove the fixed cup and don't know which way to turn it. Good luck.Thanks Obama.
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Constable_Savage
Bonjour. I have a 1978 Motobecane Grand Sprint that has a snapped off front fork dropout. I've decided to fit different forks as the pantographed originals are probably unfixable.
Anyway, the original forks were French threaded so I'm assuming the BB will be too. I've undone the lock ring on the non-drive side but can't get the cup to move, yet.
The question is - is the drive side lefty tighty, righty loosey as per everything else I own or is it righty tighty, lefty loosey before I cock it all up?