re: [CR]Weird crankset!

In an absent-minded moment, "miller" <boy@dc.rr.com> wrote:

Check out the "L" shaped crankset on this bike, listed on ebay? Weird.

http://ebay.com/<blah>

------------- The PMP cranks are discussed at CR Central: http://www.classicrendezvous.com/Italy/PMP_main.htm

with not one but two send-ups:

http://www.classicrendezvous.com/Rarest/Rarest_pics3.htm from Dale, and

and my own modest contribution from the long-extinct Bike Tech, at http://www.classicrendezvous.com/Italy/PMP_crk_ad.htm (scroll down).

I've asked John Schubert to will his NOS set to me (the joke being that he is in good health, and much younger than I am).

If cranks were intended as suspension elements, might be a not-so-bad idea - but then why do it in aluminum?

harvey sachs
mcLean va
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