Re: Re: [CR]TA chainrings, who used them?

(Example: Production Builders:Peugeot:PY-10)

From: "cmontgomery" <cmontgomery15@cox.net>
To: <greenjersey@ntlworld.com>, "joel metz" <magpie@blackbirdsf.org>
References: <20060824180915.TXPK15733.aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@smtp.ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: Re: [CR]TA chainrings, who used them?
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:50:39 -0700
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


> Joel, Sorry about that. I guess that I just assume that a post about French stuff is from Jerry! It is my recollection that plenty of people used TA rings with a three arm chainset but they also used an TA adapter. I had Stronglight three arm steel cottered cranks because in the UK the five pin cranks were only available in 170mm and I needed longer.

As I think I may have mentioned previously when the Stronglight 49D cotterless cranks were introduced in the UK far more racers used them with TA rings than Stronglight.
> Ray Green, Brighton, England

I wondered about that. My '52 Viking Path came with a Stronglight 49D equipped with an 1/8" TA. Was there a reason for using a TA over a Stronglight chainring? (Or did I miss the answer already, not having followed this thread) It's a good looking set up, but I inadvertantly knocked it out of whack. Anybody know a shade-tree means of straightening/flattening a an aluminum chainring?

Craig Montgomery in Tucson