In a message dated 4/17/02 6:57:48 PM Pacific Daylight Time, cnighbor@pacbell.net writes:
<< He had a set of these and I made a stupid comment about steel
cranks arms being heavier than a full aluminum Campagnolo set. Well
Oscar in normal manner took my head off stating that he had weighed both
sets and the steel with aluminum rings was far lighter. >>
This piqued my curiosity, so I used a kitchen food scale to check. Without
being able to "gram it out" exactly, an alloy 177.5 right side with two Nuovo
Record chainrings is clearly under 16 ounces. A 170 steel (Campy) right side
with the stock 52-42 is clearly over 16 ounces. The steel set complete is
almost 2 lbs. The alloy set complete is slightly heavier than just the right
side steel. As much as I respect Oscar, he had it backwards, the alloy set
saves almost 1/2 pound.
Stevan Thomas
Alameda, CA