RE: [CR]Holey Crankset, Batman

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In-Reply-To: <200701270430.l0R4UQNh002721@cascade.cs.ubc.ca>
From: "brian blum" <bbspokes@hotmail.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: RE: [CR]Holey Crankset, Batman
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:12:38 -0800


I doubt that crankset is durable. It looks to me that the three outer chainrings are attached with only three bolts. I think that would leave the two middle rings to buckle under large pedal forces. Brian Blum in Berkeley


>From: Donald Gillies <gillies@cs.ubc.ca>
>To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>CC: johnredman@bikerider.com, oroboyz@aol.com
>Subject: [CR]Holey Crankset, Batman
>Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 20:30:26 -0800 (PST)
>
>Re:
>
> http://ebay.com/<blah>
>
>You've stumbled across the hyper-rare TA "BCDMaster" crankset.
>There was a feeling in the late 70's by some of the engineers
>at TA that the proliferation of excessively many different
>bcd standards in cranksets had gone far enough. It was at
>this point, they released the "BCDMaster" crankset, with
>drillium holes for every bcd standard available in 1977.
>
>Today the sons of these very same engineers (it's nepotism incarnate)
>have done much the same thing with the TA Carmina cranksets, which
>echoes the now very famous "BCDMaster" design.
>
>- Don *grin* Gillies
>San Diego, CA
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