Anybody got one of these rings in 42 that they're willing to part with? I'd prefer 1/8" width, but 3/32" will do.
Thanks, Jamie Swan - Northport, N.Y.
> From: hersefan@comcast.net
> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:21:41 +0000
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: Re: [CR]More on Unusual Stronglight 49 cranks
>
> More on this...
>
> The Stronglight 49D first made its appearance around 1936 or so. Front
> deraillieurs were rare (but not unheard of) so a single ring was most common.
>
> Around 1949 Stronglight often packaged their crank with a single road ring in
> a nice blue box with a remover included. So rather than odd, this was in fact
> a very common version. In the UK market it was probably very common too as
> single chainring bikes with deraillieur gears were commonplace.
>
> Mike Kone in Boulder CO
>
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>> Thomas Adams wrote:
>>
>> What's odd to me is the single TA style road width (3/32) chainring, with no
>> provision for attaching inner rings. I thought the model 49 was a two ring
>> crank
>> from the start.
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>> One sees these all the time on bikes in the V-CC News & Views, for it
>> was a common way to set up a bike in the 1950s, when British riders often
>> (but
>> by no means always) used only one chainring. The number of rings to use on a
>> 49D
>> was up to the individual, and TA even offered a four ring combination.
>> Remember
>> that TA made rings for the 49D and cranks of the same pattern from Williams,
>> BSA, etc. for some years before they made their own cranks. Chain rings not
>> drilled for mounting an inner ring have been available from TA probably for
>> decades. I have one on my bike.
>>
>> Christopher Barbour
>> Boston, Mass.