Re: [CR]eBay: 180mm Pista Cranks

(Example: Racing:Wayne Stetina)

From: "David Benson" <tech@worrall.co.nz>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]eBay: 180mm Pista Cranks
References: <773FCCCDD7698245881983051782789132EE29@isomailp3.iso.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:52:33 +1300

Silver, Mordecai wrote:
>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
>

There is a ggod image of the cranks also: http://www.damonrinard.com/photos/epeesideviewbw.jpg DB Ak, NZ
>
>
>>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