I'm surprised that the White Industries Crank hasn't been mentioned. It requires you to use their large chainring, but that in turn allows you to use a small chainring in a variety of bcds. This would allow all of your screwball double gearing combos that you can think of for the most part.
See the crank here: http://www.whiteind.com/cranks/roadcranks.html It's even Silver and square taper, although the chainring appears to be black. Joe Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 21:12:49 -0700 Subject: [RBW] Re: Outer ring on Rambouillet From: cyclotour...@gmail.com To: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com Ahhhh, my eyes... they hurt.... But really, why get rid of the outside position? I would put a rock guard/bash ring on there. Seems a much better options than straight doing away with the ring. DE On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Garth <garth...@gmail.com> wrote: With the popularity of 29ers, were seeing a start of some 110/74 doubles. The are essentially a refined 110/74 triple.... just made so you cannot put an outer ring on them. It's just as easy to not put a outer ring on your triple and you at least have an option to go back. Here's some from Rotor .... yeah the colors are what they are . . .put you get the idea of what can be done. http://www.rotorbikeusa.com/productMtbCrank.html Sugino showed one too...a photo shown here ...http://velo- orange.blogspot.com/2009/03/taipei-cycle-show-update-3.html It looks to be outboard bearing though. . . . the latest in the whirly-go- round of engineers with too much time on their hands trying to reinvent bike parts. LoL! The TA Carmina is champ of all BCD's . . . yeah it's a bit pricey at 4 bills . . . but like many Euro things . . .the loss of the Dollar has made it tough. But, it's not all that out of line . . . as the Zephyr last sold with rings from Riv for $275 in 2002. Look at the price % increases of PW FW hubs . . . . it's been soaring and there's no exchange rate involved. It is what it is . . . .. 48 or 50 isn't just for racing . . . I use a 48x13 top gear and I'm and average cyclist who lives on very hilly terrain . . . so I use it frequently. A 46 ring should be no problem on the FSA crankset as long as your doing friction . . .it's when people do the indexing F/R that things can get hair-pullingly specific. -- Cheers, David Redlands, CA "Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There is something wrong with a society that drives a car to workout in a gym." ~Bill Nye, scientist guy _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live: Keep your friends up to date with what you do online. http://windowslive.com/Campaign/SocialNetworking?ocid=PID23285::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:SI_SB_online:082009 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
