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As some of you might know I have recently purchased the attached lovely classic stronglight cranks for my 1965 Bob Jackson. I now need to find the correct size crank puller to fit them. I am told this tool is quite rare.

DO YOU KNOW ANYONE WITH ONE?

DO I NEED ONE TO FIT THESE CRANKS?

IS THERE A CYCLE SHOP WHO WOULD FIT THEM?

I am desperate to get the bike back on the road! Very close to giving up and getting modern cranks installed instead!

Any further help you might have would be very gratefully received!

Thanks very much!

Anyone want to buy some stronglight cranks hahahaha. No seriously. I need to get this bike back on the road - the bus is killing me!! Please help!

you'll have to ask superted of FGL. he's the only person i know of who's got the right french puller in london town.

How do I get in touch with this Superted??

Hello! Thanks for your help. I am now the proud owner of some lovely stronglight cranks. Now I have a problem! Obviously I did not pay enough attention to your advice and was wooed by the look of the stronglights without considering that I might have a task on my hands to find a crank puller for them! Where should I look for one?

DOES ANYONE HAVE AN EXTRACTOR FOR THE VINTAGE STRONGLIGHT CRANKS IN THE PIC - THANKS

Aha! What are your thoughts on this stronglight crank set. Could they work for my bike - in lay mans terms?!

Hmmm,

I know they are expensive. I love the history though! How hard do you think it will be to get a bottom bracket to fit the stronglight cranks?

Or is this crazy and in fact I could just buy new cranks and bottom bracket that will fit with my existing chainring and spider???

Will the stronglight cranks fit with my existing chinring and spider>????

SPEC ON THE STRONGLIGHT CRANKS

An Excellent Stronglight 49D & TA Combination.

The Cranks are 49D with 170mm length, excellent tapers and threads, the logos are the early ones with depose only (not Marque Depose). Attached is a good early Logo TA Dural Forged 52 Tooth Ring.

All in good order.

Wow! Amazing knowledge and advice! I am a bit lost I have to say! I could buy this stronglight set on ebay but do you think I can get them to fit? Would I try to fit the stronglight cranks to my chain ring, or simply replace with this chain ring?

I bow to your superior knowledge - I am a novice I'm afraid!

Off to bed! THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP EVERYONE!!

wow the stronglight ones are great looking! I really like the chain ring also. Thanks!

got it! Thanks for clarification....

If you get some TA cranks then that spider setup will probably fit them.
...just realised - D'oh!

Really - so I keep the chain ring and spider and you think the cranks will fit?? I like the look of them - would you order direct?

aha! Right I'm going to set to and do that. Give it a proper inspection. The bike shop was London Fields Cycles. Very nice people and a nice shop but when I said well do you think I should get BJ to take a look at it they said "Oh are they still going?". Well you can't have done that much research into fixing it if you don't k now the company that made the bike in the first place is still going!

hmm. Now thinking it may not be the spindle?? Bike shop were pretty unclear and were basically saying get over yourself and get a new set installed! If I had the tools I'd take it apart myself and try to get to the bottom of it! Am using a great website to learn the basics: http://bicycletutor.com/
Thanks for the advice!

Can you help. I am a bit new to all this but recently bought myself this Bob Jackson - I think it is 1956 one careful owner - then he sold it to me! The crank set was original to the bike and recently i believe the spindle has bent and needs replacing. However it is such an unusual shape that even Bob Jackson are recommending I install a new crank set as this cannot be repaired or replaced. I think this bike needs its original cranks - i love the look of them and don't want to replace them with a modern set. What shall I do??

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS BEFORE?

WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND?

DO YOU KNOW OF A MODERN SET THAT COULD NEARLY REPLICATE THE LOOK OF THE OLD?

DO YOU KNOW A GREAT MECHANIC WHO WOULD TAKE THIS ON AS A PROJECT?

I really want to get back on the road so am tempted to give in and just get a new set installed. PLEAE HELP ME!!

Thank you!

Phil