John Barron wrote:
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> (snip) it's Super Record
> and that the rationale was that it basically fit the style of non-fluted
> crankarms in the latest version of that group. FWIW, I bought several
> non-fluted NOS cranksets in the same batch of stuff that this post came from
> in Italy.
Thing I always wondered was why the milled flutes in the late SR crank's spider weren't eliminated at the same time as the milled flutes in the crank arms and the seat post?!
Reminds me of something I once heard a machinist say, "If you can drill or mill a part to make it lighter and it doesn't break in use then the part was designed too heavy to begin with." He did like the look of drilled and milled vintage parts though.
Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California
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