Originally Posted by
JohnDThompson
Older French bikes may have metric pedal thread, but starting around 1980, English/ISO thread was used. Often, pedal thread spec is marked on the crank arm. If you can't find metric thread pedals, the arms can be re-tapped to English/ISO thread.
apparently, that was 1978 or earlier! i just tried screwing in a new mountain-bike LEFT pedal and the threads match.
