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Octalink V0 ??
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10-22-2011, 09:02 PM
I am taking apart my World Tourist BB (1985 vintage); and pull off the cranks, expecting the find the standard square taper, but find:

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Fifteen years or so before Octalink V1.....
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10-23-2011, 01:44 PM
This link was provided by painkiller
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/shimano1982/pages/35.html

It was called OCTA Joint Crank.
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