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BumbleBeeDave

11-09-2010, 07:52 PM

http://jalopnik.com/5682223/a-porsche-a-bicycling-record-and-one-giant-sprocket?skyline=true&s=i

:eek:

BBD

bike22

11-09-2010, 07:55 PM

http://forums.thepaceline.net/showthread.php?t=80823

pitcrew

11-09-2010, 08:23 PM

I think that chainring is a 650c

shiftyfixedgear

11-09-2010, 10:22 PM

Al Letorneur's chainring was considerably bigger, IIRC.

shiftyfixedgear

11-09-2010, 10:39 PM

Here is a pic - also note that unlike more modern record attempts, Al wasn't TOWED by the pace car up to a near record-breaking speed, and then released for a brief sprint. He pedaled that bike up to speed.

Bike was made for the record attempt by the constructeurs at the Schwinn Paramount shop.

shiftyfixedgear

11-09-2010, 11:10 PM

Here is Jose' Meifret's bike for good measure. 130 tooth chainring and I believe a 15 tooth cog in back.

Meifret was famous for surviving a terrible 80+ MPH crash during a record attempt, and then recovering and doing the attempt AGAIN on his way to establishing a new record.

His biography was entitled "My Rendevous with Death" !

spartacus

11-10-2010, 03:46 AM

It's a tricycle.

srice

11-10-2010, 06:53 AM

Anybody know why these guys are tying the front of their saddles to the top tube?

flydhest

11-10-2010, 07:18 AM

would electronic shifting help those guys? I think so.

ckamp

11-10-2010, 07:19 AM

And the fork is backwards? So many questions to be answered..

Lifelover

11-10-2010, 07:50 AM

And the fork is backwards? So many questions to be answered..
Dave Kirk answered the fork question in the thread linked above.

spartacus

11-10-2010, 07:59 AM

Anybody know why these guys are tying the front of their saddles to the top tube?

To stop it from becoming an aero lifting body.

SEABREEZE

11-10-2010, 08:02 AM

Interesting 4 sure

protege55

11-10-2010, 08:22 AM

Not that this is a car forum, but the pace car is a full blown Porsche race car - that thing on it's own is crazy cool, but then throw the fairing and the tricycle in the pic...unreal. I can't even imagine it...

fiamme red

11-10-2010, 08:26 AM

would electronic shifting help those guys? I think so.How would electronic shifting help on a fixed-gear?

RPS

11-10-2010, 08:46 AM

Dave Kirk answered the fork question in the thread linked above.
Do you not wonder why they are not all backwards? ;)