What type of crankset is this?
03-18-24 | 11:14 AM
#26
Bike Butcher of Portland
Joined: Jul 2014
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From: Portland, OR
Bikes: It's complicated.
BTW, I remember planting those trees with my dad around 50 years ago. Good to see they're holding up to the Central Valley summers.
The location is pretty much smack dab in the middle of Madera, Chowchilla, and Firebaugh.
Chowchilla is famous for a school bus kidnapping, occured when I was 16 about 5 miles from that house. News reporters would stop by and ask to use our phone to call in their stories. Had to tell them it was ok, but they'd have to wait for Mrs. Vierra to get off the phone (we had a party line, she liked to call her friends for hours at a time).
Firebaugh is famous for being the hometown of Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen. One of my brother-in-laws is good friends with the Allen family.
Madera is famous for, well, not much. People would ask where I grew up, I'd tell them Madera, they wouldn't know where it was. I'd reply, "for a good time, we'd go to Fresno."
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03-18-24 | 12:56 PM
#28
ah...the delightful Central (San Joachin) Valley!
I just got a spam phonecall from Corcoran this morning, the town in which one of my sisters was born (and before the Prison was built!) so I didn't answer!
...We moved all over the Valley when I was too young to remember much: Corcoran, Dos Palos, Bakersfield, Hanford, Arvin...
Nobody recognizes any of these names ('cept maybe Bakersfield, thanks to the music).
I just got a spam phonecall from Corcoran this morning, the town in which one of my sisters was born (and before the Prison was built!) so I didn't answer!
...We moved all over the Valley when I was too young to remember much: Corcoran, Dos Palos, Bakersfield, Hanford, Arvin...
Nobody recognizes any of these names ('cept maybe Bakersfield, thanks to the music).
06-11-25 | 11:02 AM
#29
Junior Member
Joined: Nov 2004
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Although I own 3x of these Nervar Star cranks (1 on a bike and 2 in boxes), they were not well-loved. Like stronglight, they were NOT anodized. In the first season of the Raleigh Professional Bike Racing team, Carlton/Worksop provided the team with very cheap components including these cranks and weinmann 500 sidepull brakes. The racers complained bitterly that the nubbled finish of the cranks tarnished right away and turned grey/black, making them very ugly. If you polish the cranks, i might suggest trying to put clearcoat into the triangular nubbed part of the crank before you install it.
06-12-25 | 05:42 AM
#30
Old fart
Joined: Nov 2004
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From: Appleton WI
Bikes: Several, mostly not name brands.
Yes. IMO, the primary objection to those cranks is the proprietary bolt-cirlce diameter: 128mm, which makes it hard to find chainrings, especially those with non-standard tooth counts.
