I'm going for the French land speed record.
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I'm going for the French land speed record.
I just need the rest of the bike now
I got this in a bike shop basement.
Durax crank arms with a Cyclo 62 tooth ring all NOS.
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That should impress the girls!
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Well, nice conversation starter, anyway.
Pair that with a 12t cog for a 136+ inch gear. Or to put it another way about 40% more than I'd ever need. ymmv
Pair that with a 12t cog for a 136+ inch gear. Or to put it another way about 40% more than I'd ever need. ymmv
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The question is that is it for a track bike?
The bike shop said it was for a pignonfixe ( fixed gear ) but someone else has told me it might be for a derny.
The bike shop said it was for a pignonfixe ( fixed gear ) but someone else has told me it might be for a derny.
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Just make sure you roll up your pants leg, or you might lose that leg. EDIT: And just how long are those crank arms, anyways? 180? 185?
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Hehe...Go BIG or go home !
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You just got beat by a girl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Buatois . Can you crank that up to 75mph?
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You just got beat by a girl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Buatois . Can you crank that up to 75mph?
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Between the backwards fork and the motorbike's super sweep-back handlebars I'm just speechless..
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For a land speed record ring, think of a chainring as large as the crank arms and beyond.
https://velopaint.blogspot.com/2011/0...g-on-that.html
Now, that is big.
I wonder how the tax laws in some European countries differ from the USA, there appear to be many more shops that have old inventory squirreled away than what you find in the USA. Or, was the distribution such that a shop to get a decent price for stuff had to make a huge qty. commitment? No stocking distributors?
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I wonder how the tax laws in some European countries differ from the USA, there appear to be many more shops that have old inventory squirreled away than what you find in the USA. Or, was the distribution such that a shop to get a decent price for stuff had to make a huge qty. commitment? No stocking distributors?
This shop has some really cool items and i always find something different everytime i go. Last time, i found this crankset and also saw NOS nickel plated crank arms from the 20/30s.
Also a pile of the decorative Peugeot crank rings from around the 1930s bare metal unplated.
I was told though in the 1980s Japanese buyer bought the majority of the NOS items from Paris to take back to Japan.
I also found this very nice NOS Philippe track stem.
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I have no idea why there seems to be more here. I always thought it was shops buying the old stock from other shops that had closed down.
This shop has some really cool items and i always find something different everytime i go. Last time, i found this crankset and also saw NOS nickel plated crank arms from the 20/30s.
Also a pile of the decorative Peugeot crank rings from around the 1930s bare metal unplated.
I was told though in the 1980s Japanese buyer bought the majority of the NOS items from Paris to take back to Japan.
I also found this very nice NOS Philippe track stem.
This shop has some really cool items and i always find something different everytime i go. Last time, i found this crankset and also saw NOS nickel plated crank arms from the 20/30s.
Also a pile of the decorative Peugeot crank rings from around the 1930s bare metal unplated.
I was told though in the 1980s Japanese buyer bought the majority of the NOS items from Paris to take back to Japan.
I also found this very nice NOS Philippe track stem.
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very cool......my first thought was some did an elegant and not over the top steampunk bike
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You just got beat by a girl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Buatois . Can you crank that up to 75mph?
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I just watched this last night, and it has a section on land-speed-record recumbents: https://video.pbs.org/video/2365099550/
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