Re: [CR]eBay: 180mm Pista Cranks

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Subject: Re: [CR]eBay: 180mm Pista Cranks
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From: "Silver, Mordecai" <MSilver@iso.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:35:18 -0500

If this website is correct, Indurain used 190 mm cranks when he broke the hour record: http://ida1.physik.uni-siegen.de/menn/hourrecmain.htm.

It's interesting too how much bike weight varied in the hour record attempts: Coppi's bike in 1942 weighed more than Oscar Egg's in 1912.

Mordecai Silver New York, NY
>Campagnolo offered 151pcd (and, later, 144pcd) track cranks in 165,
>167.5, 170, 172.5, 175. 177.5 & 180mm lenghths.
>If memory serves, Miguel Indurain used 185mm cranks, apparently based on
>the Nuovo Record forging to break the Hour Record in 1994.
>David Benson,
>Auckland, NZ