{"id":88,"date":"2004-09-30T11:33:56","date_gmt":"2004-09-30T11:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=88"},"modified":"2004-09-30T11:33:56","modified_gmt":"2004-09-30T11:33:56","slug":"o-symetric-harmonic-chainrings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/o-symetric-harmonic-chainrings\/","title":{"rendered":"O.Symetric &#34;Harmonic&#34; Chainrings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/media\/20040929-harmonic.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"257\" alt=\"O.Symetric \"Harmonic\" Chainrings\" title=\"O.Symetric \"Harmonic\" Chainrings\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.osymetric.com\/design.htm\">O.Symetric &#8220;Harmonic&#8221; Chainrings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those chainrings are called Harmonic, and they offer a larger gear ratio when the crank is horizontal than when it is vertical (the opposite of Biopace). I asked Bobby Julich about them, and he referred me to the company&#8217;s website. And lest you think they are a revival of the old Biopace design, Julich says &#8220;they are the furthest thing from what Shimano had!&#8221;&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.velonews.com\/tech\/report\/articles\/6799.0.html\">Velonews Techtalk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They still didn&#8217;t help Vinokourov as Mick Rogers takes Gold in Verona for the 2004 UCI World Road TT champs: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/news.php?id=news\/2004\/sep04\/sep30news\">First Edition Cycling News for September 30, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SuzyJ points out that these have been around for ages, see also:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.highpath.co.uk\/cycles\/products\/oval01.html\">EGGrings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O.Symetric &#8220;Harmonic&#8221; Chainrings &#8220;Those chainrings are called Harmonic, and they offer a larger gear ratio when the crank is horizontal than when it is vertical (the opposite of Biopace). I asked Bobby Julich about them, and he referred me to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/o-symetric-harmonic-chainrings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}