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Old 03-06-09, 03:14 PM
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Need help with crankarm replacement

My bike has Truvativ Rouleur Carbon cranks, 180mm crankarms. I want to replace these crankarms with shorter ones, 172.5mm. Since SRAM bought Truvativ I believe that they only retained the MTB components, thus the Rouleur crankarms are near impossible to find. Can any other manufacturers' crankarms fit my Truvativ chainrings/spider?, if not, do I (a) buy an entire crankset on ebay in order to get the crankarms?, or (b) just change to a whole different system? Thanks.
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Road double cranksets are either compact -110 bcd- or standard -130bcd. Any crankarms with the same bcd will work (except campy).
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Originally Posted by TimJ
Road double cranksets are either compact -110 bcd- or standard -130bcd. Any crankarms with the same bcd will work (except campy).
Tim - Mine's a triple crankset, circa 2004. Thanks.
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Hey Tim, with your answer I looked up "measuring bcd" in Sheldon Browns website and I understand. Thanks for the lead.
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