Re: [CR] Holey Crankset, Batman

<< 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. >>

Nah.. It has five. It will do just fine Dale Brown cycles de ORO, Inc. 1410 Mill Street Greensboro, North Carolina 27408 USA 336.274.5959 http://www.cyclesdeoro.com http://www.classicrendezvous.com -----Original Message----- From: bbspokes@hotmail.com To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 4:12 AM Subject: RE: [CR]Holey Crankset, Batman

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 >_______________________________________________ >Classicrendezvous mailing list >Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org >http://www.bikelist.org/mailman/listinfo/classicrendezvous

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