Re: [CR]Curt Harnett and his 151BCD chainrings

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From: "David Currie" <jo-routens@hotmail.com>
To: pariscycles@yahoo.co.uk, john@os2.dhs.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Curt Harnett and his 151BCD chainrings
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 21:06:04 +0000
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

I know this is off-topic, but the Alexandr record is paralympic.

http://www.paralympic.org/release/Main_Sections_Menu/Sports/Records/records.html?event_id=27&sport_id=6&name=World%20Best%20Times%20-%20200m%20(Indoor%20track%20/%20Flying%20start)%20-%20Men

Harnett's record is 9.865.

http://www.canoe.ca/OlympicsCanadaHarnett/sep95_harnett.html

David Currie Toronto, Canada
>From: Michael Butler <pariscycles@yahoo.co.uk>
>To: john@os2.dhs.org
>CC: CR Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Subject: Re: [CR]Curt Harnett and his 151BCD chainrings
>Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 19:49:28 +0100 (BST)
>
>Hello John,
>Are sure about Curt Harnett holding the World flying
>200 metre record? I always thought it was Robert
>Whitford USA open air at Atlanta 11.830 and indoor
>Vladimir Alexandre Russia Moscow 10.777.
>Best wishes Mick Butler UK.
>--- John Thompson <JohnThompson@new.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > Chuck Schmidt wrote:
> > > emeneff@earthlink.net wrote:
> > >
> > >>David Benson posted about Canadian sprinter Curt
> > Harnett :
> > >>
> > >>>Incidentally, Canadian sprinter Curt Harnett used
> > 151 chainrings right
> > >>>through his >career which ended with a bronze
> > medal at the '96 Olympics. He
> > >>>still holds the World >Record for the Flying
> > 200m, set in 1995 on a lugged
> > >>>steel bike.
> > >>
> > >>Which of course begs the question : Which pattern
> > chainring bolts did he use ?
> > >>Brev. or Patent ?
> > >
> > > It was rumored back then that Curt was very
> > superstitious and that he
> > > had used both. What isn't known (now lost to
> > history) is what the mix
> > > (ratio) was of the Brev. and Patent chainring
> > bolts.
> > >
> > > Can anyone shed more light on this little known or
> > talked about rumor?
> > >
> > > 1 Brev. to 4 Patent ?
> > > 2 Brev. to 3 Patent ?
> > > 3 Brev. to 2 Patent ?
> > > 4 Brev. to 1 Patent ?
> >
> > Knowing the ratio is only the tip of the issue. You
> > must also know the
> > pattern in which they were installed. Was there one
> > "Patent" opposite
> > the crankarm? Did the Brevs and Patents alternate?
> > Inquiring minds need
> > to know!
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > -John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
> > Appleton WI USA
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>
>Thats all for now. Keep those wheels spinning, in your memories if not
>still on the road. Be lucky Mick Butler Huntingdon UK.
>
>
>
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