re: [CR] Bet you don't have, nor want this...

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 07:24:47 -0500
To: classic list <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "Roy H. Drinkwater" <roydrink@mac.com>
Subject: re: [CR] Bet you don't have, nor want this...


Scott Goldstein queried:
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>http://ebay.com/<blah>
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>described as:
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>This item, a Durham Elliptical Chainwheel, 54-tooth, provides a
>unique alternative for the person who thinks he or she has
>everything bicycle. Not many Campagnolo or Shimano addicts will have
>a Durham Ellipitical Chainwheel. This comes with instruction sheet.
>I do not know whether it has been mounted. It has the same bolt hole
>pattern as a Campagnolo NR or SR crankset.
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>
>someone explain this item...

Deja vu? Tom Hayes has one too?

I had the chance yesterday to stop at Via Bicycle in Philadelphia, Curtis Anthony's shop. After getting the uncensored version of the Mafac tool kit story, Curtis invited me to look around upstairs. This place is the equivalent of your grandparent's attic, if all they did was collect bikes... As I was wandering/wondering around, a thought popped up, "Someone's going to mention tomorrow, something I'm looking at today..." Sure enough, after I took a look at Richard Schwinn's Paramount, and was trying to get past the highwheeler to the curly Hetchins and the Bob Jackson trike, I examined a Durham chainwheel. ;^)

It is a version of the 'concept' of non-round chainrings that's been promulgated for over 100 years, the most recent by Shimano with Biopace chainrings.

Roy "non-round myself" Drinkwater Lititz "what goes around, comes around", PA