Re: [CR]Steel cranks, aluminum cranks...

(Example: Production Builders)

Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:23:51 -0400
From: "Harvey Sachs" <hmsachs@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Steel cranks, aluminum cranks...
To: haxixe@gmail.com, Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>


The Duprat 5-pin hollow steel crank, sort of octagonal section, weighhed 3 gam (0.1 oz) more than the comparable TA cyclotourist right crank. I think they were 159 and 156 gm, respectively, but can't put my hands on that list right now.

harvey sachs mcLean va ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Weren't the hollow armed steel cottered cranks just as light as Al alloy cotterless? I hefted a '50s Durax (?) octagonal armed crank and although I didn't weigh it, it felt about the same as Al alloy Campagnolo Record cranks to me weight wise.

Kurt Sperry
Bellingham WA
USA