Joel, Sorry about that. I guess that I just assume that a post about French stuff is from Jerry! It is my recollection that plenty of people used TA rings with a three arm chainset but they also used an TA adapter. I had Stronglight three arm steel cottered cranks because in the UK the five pin cranks were only available in 170mm and I needed longer. As I think I may have mentioned previously when the Stronglight 49D cotterless cranks were introduced in the UK far more racers used them with TA rings than Stronglight.
Ray Green, Brighton, England
>
> From: joel metz <magpie@blackbirdsf.org>
> Date: 2006/08/24 Thu PM 04:42:43 BST
> To: <greenjersey@ntlworld.com>
> CC: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Subject: Re: [CR]TA chainrings, who used them?
>
> whoops. that was actually me who wrote that. i got two points from
> the ta timeline combined in one sentence :)
>
> bobet won the french national champs in 1950 using ta "randonneur"
> pattern chainwheels.
>
> bobet won the *tour* in 1953 using ta "criterium" pattern chainwheels
>
> my mistake. typing too fast :)
>
> -joel
>
>
> At 16:26 +0100 08.24.2006, <greenjersey@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> >Jerry wrote
> >bobet won the tour using "randonneur" pattern chainwheels in 1950.
> >I don't have a reference book to hand but for sure the 1950 Tour was
> >won by a Swiss, either Koblet or Kubler. Bobet won in 1953,54 & 55.
> >Ray Green, Brighton, England
> >
> >-----------------------------------------
> >Email sent from http://www.ntlworld.com
> >Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software
> >Visit http://www.ntlworld.com/
> >
> >_______________________________________________
>
>
> --
> joel metz : magpie@blackbirdsf.org : http://www.blackbirdsf.org/
> bike messengers worldwide : ifbma : http://www.messengers.org/
> magpie messenger collective http://www.magpiemessenger.com/
> portland, oregon
> ==
> i know what innocence looks like - and it wasn't there,
> after she got that bicycle...
>
-----------------------------------------
Email sent from http://www.ntlworld.com
Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software
Visit http://www.ntlworld.com/