Re: [CR] Was Velo-Mine polishing - Now crank arm breakage

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Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:30:51 -0800
From: "verktyg" <verktyg@aol.com>
To: damien roohr <droohr@comcast.net>, Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
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Subject: Re: [CR] Was Velo-Mine polishing - Now crank arm breakage


Slightly off the topic but scroll down to the 3rd and 4th messages.

http://www.gitaneusa.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1368

Fignon, what a man!

Chas. Colerich Oakland, CA USA

damien roohr wrote:
> I am no engineer, but apart form the cool drillium components (now, why didn't that trend continue??), I for one would steer clear of any vintage part whose specs along any dimension had been tinkered with by some amateur engineer. I have been in races where a guy snaps a crank arm - another snaps a rear axle.. Just glad most of the time, up here in the NE, in the 80's - 90's most of the field was more concerned with leg power than attempting to out-think a professional metallurgical engineer. But that's just me.