Another frame identification.French bike purchase or UK?

[ATBOY]

Picked this up today at a bike recyclerie in france. It’s labelled « Bath CMB Cycles » .Apparently a British gentleman brought it in. Guessing it’s a frame re-badged by a bike shop. Could still be french though. Any ideas?
Interesting; frame dropouts have holes both ends (fork) . Bike has been equipped with Campy athena I think 3X8speed brifters.
Front wheel with mavic hub. Rear probably replaced by Campy hub with 7 speed cassette.
TA specialites crank which has had 2 large chainrings installed same size, possibly to replace the used middle one. Likely a triple (was the reason for low price, 35e’s) and couldn’t find a good replacement.
Brakes and front derailleur Sachs 5000.
BB looks to be a Mavic, to comfirm
Haven’t identified the pedals yet, but look good. Will be posted on my YT channel at one point. Hopefully just needs cleaning, middle chainring, replacement ribben, finding a 8 sprocket freewheel.

 

[ATBOY]

Anybody identify these pedals?

 

[ATBOY]

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[jim haseltine]

They look like TA 3690 - as long as somebody has fitted the kick-tab backwards.

 

[ATBOY]

They look like TA 3690 - as long as somebody has fitted the kick-tab backwards.

Cheers, didn’t know specialites had made pedals. They’re in poor condition, hopefully can be cleaned up

 

[ATBOY]

Can anyone ID this bottom bracket? First thought was MAVIC or stronglight. No markings. 6 pins on one side of the cup and the other 4 pins.
Now, even more odd, the 6 pin side has 3 allen (2mm) bolts. My guess is some kind of bottom bracket used to repair stripped threads. Possibly the threading in the pins is to secure whatever tool down. The Hanger for the derailleur has already been repaired due to stripped threads. This bike is becoming a slight challenge. 7mm plunger bolt, Ta cranks (23mm threading for the crank puller) with tool I don’t have. And this odd BB.

 

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[otherself]

Drilled dropouts were a fad in the late 70's to mid 80's. Even Raleigh got in on the act with its special division frames.

I've seen them on LeJeune's, Bertin's and Gitane's and among some obscure French frame builders.

 

[jim haseltine]

That's a sealed cartridge BB, might even be a threadless unit. I'd guess at it being a Mavic SSC except that they had loads of stamping ids on the bearing pre-load plates and the lock rings. You could have issues getting the thing out unless the previous owner kept on top of corrosion inside the BB shell. Gets even more difficult if you don't know what thread standard it is. If it is Mavic, French and Italian units were threaded all the way across (I think) and fixed by the lock rings while the BSA version had a separate RH cup in which the cartridge seated. That might just explain the 4 pin Vs 6 pin question.

 

[ATBOY]

That's a sealed cartridge BB, might even be a threadless unit. I'd guess at it being a Mavic SSC except that they had loads of stamping ids on the bearing pre-load plates and the lock rings. You could have issues getting the thing out unless the previous owner kept on top of corrosion inside the BB shell. Gets even more difficult if you don't know what thread standard it is. If it is Mavic, French and Italian units were threaded all the way across (I think) and fixed by the lock rings while the BSA version had a separate RH cup in which the cartridge seated. That might just explain the 4 pin Vs 6 pin question.

Thanks for the info. Given the quill stem was fairly seized, I’d be inclined to believe it hasn’t been removed in quite some time. Since it’s still ok, I’m not going to bother. This was supposed to be an easy clean up job and to replace drive side crank. I’ve got access to tools to remove it, but then what? If it was a frame my size, I’d probably be more passionate.