Re: [CR]Track bike BB clearance

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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 07:18:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Joe Starck" <josephbstarck@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Track bike BB clearance
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: 6667
cc: DonWalkerCycles@aol.com


--- DonWalkerCycles@aol.com wrote:


> Dale,
>
> There are two types of track riders...those who have
> gone down, and those who
> are going down.
> Lets look at it from another standpoint...
> at the Superdrome, they turns are 44 degrees. With
> 170 arms and a standard
> Campi style pedal and an 11 inch BB height, at 15
> mph, you are going to clip
> your pedal and be pulling out spinters from your
> right butt cheek. With a 11.5
> inch BB height, not a problem...
> See, remember that for friday night racing they have
> a "neuteral lap" which
> most riders use as lap to sit in until the ref blows
> the whistle to start the
> race...its always the slowest lap of each race, and
> always the one lap that
> sees the most crashes.
>
> i rest my case...

At Masi, for all those national, pan-american, world and olympic team bikes, we went with 5cm drop. (I can't recall wheel diameters anymore.) Unrest Don, what would the BB height be?

Joe Starck, masidon, wi

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