Hey Trek420,

what kind of components are you pulling off of your motobecane mixte for the fixte project? I am always in serious fear that something on mine will break and I'll have to scramble. Well, that I will be in the middle of nowhere and I'll have to track down a swiss bottom bracket, or something stupid like that...

Also, gals, i got an old bike with cottered cranks, and found it was not hard at all to switch them out (despite scepticism from the bike shop guy).

What I did was I brought in the old spindle (for the french thread bb) to a bike store that has used parts. I sized it up to a used square-taper spindle, for my replacement. then i got some used cranks of a _slightly_ more modern vintage to match, and no more steel cranks to weigh me down.