cook cranks listed as coop cranks!

[obi-wan-mtb]

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only 30 minutes left!

I don't need it....

 

[stew-b]

CQP not cooks i think?

 

[obi-wan-mtb]

CQP not cooks i think?

I think your'e right!

weren't they family though? Realy, Cook Quality Products and Cook Bros - related if I remember correctly, but gee, that's a long way back....

 

[stew-b]

i never was sure....like you say,its a long time ago!

 

[scant]

CQP not cooks i think?

I think your'e right!

weren't they family though? Realy, Cook Quality Products and Cook Bros - related if I remember correctly, but gee, that's a long way back....

TOPLINE - The Origin of the Cranks

Precision Tooling is a family owned machine business that has machined parts from metal for different companies over time. For a period they were the sub-contracting firm making CQP cranks. The relationship with CQP faded and John Trenerry and his father Phil worked out an exciting and stylish design for a crank arm set. Phil's knowledge of metals helped make the arms strong though they appeared delicate. There was initial un-certainty about whether the family should be bold enough to enter the bicycle parts market on their own, under their own name. As it turns out Phil Trenerry had known John Grafton for many years and Grafton's first cantilever brake had been successful. Grafton had been prevailed by others make an entrance in the crank market and the Trenerry's crank held promise though they again were reluctant. The Trenerrys agreed to make the crank they had designed and let Grafton market them. The crankset's popularity and the Grafton name identification lead to immediate market interest. After about a years time we started to be sold the cranks directly from Topline, (which is also known as Precision Tooling), because their verbal contract with Grafton had crumbled. The design remained rightly in the Trenerry hands and they have become very successful using their own name in marketing their own cranks. We've found that generally when splits like this occur, there is usually a problem related to sub- contractors being paid for their work. Have you noticed how similar the Sims cranks are to the last version of Grafton cranks? It's not a well kept secret that Sims was the sub-contractor used to make Grafton cranks after Precision Tooling (Topline)/Grafton relationship ended