Re: [CR]WTB: 151 BCD road chainring, 44 tooth

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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 00:58:45 -0400
To: HM & SS Sachs <sachs@erols.com>, Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Sheldon Brown" <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]WTB: 151 BCD road chainring, 44 tooth


At 8:48 PM -0400 7/12/03, HM & SS Sachs wrote:
>In deference to my increasing age and non-shrinking waist, it's time
>to seek the lowest possible chainring for my '65 Paramount. Please,
>nothing for 1/8" (track) chain. Want good enough condition to ride
>a few hundred mi./year for the next two decades, need not be too
>pretty. Have lots of 144 bcd rings I can trade, or can be induced to
>pay cash.
>
>(Dan Artley led a beautiful ride this afternoon north of Baltimore,
>and a really nice picnic afterwards, BUT, this was
>fixed-gear-friendly for the under 40 crowd only. Actually, I rode
>the paramount, with 22 largest FW, so I had a 58" low gear. Would
>have been better off with my ASC fixed gear!)

My '61 Paramount has a 26 on it, but it's not for sale...prob'ly wouldn't help you anyway. Flip flop hub on the back with an 8 and a 9, block chain and Campionnato del Mondo tubs...It's actually a road bike but I've re-rigged it for fixed gear.

At the moment, it's probably the only bike in the world with Campagnolo Ergo brifters and a block chain!

Anyway, though I can't help you in front, we did just _finally_ receive the long promised White Industries 23 tooth freewheels. These are the world's snazziest singlespeed freewheels (oughta be for 80 simoleons!) with sealed cartridge bearings and finer than usual ratchets. I'm not much into freewheels myself, but these are pretty nifty.

http://sheldonbrown.com/harris/singlespeed.html#freewheels

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