What Crankset?
10-11-08, 06:50 AM
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What Crankset?
On my Mondonico I want to change to a carbon compact. It has a fairly modern Record aluminum crank 53/39.
Any carbon compacts that are to be avoided, like a well-known failure history? I'll probably be buying used.
The rest of the bike is Campy or American. Not against Shimano, just not for this bike.
Thanks!
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Any carbon compacts that are to be avoided, like a well-known failure history? I'll probably be buying used.
The rest of the bike is Campy or American. Not against Shimano, just not for this bike.
Thanks!
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10-11-08, 09:22 AM
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Record aluminum cranks are awesome, but if you need a compact, a Campagnolo Centaur compact UT crankset in whatever material would work just as awesome.
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I see number of used FSA K-force and SL-K out on Ebay, but as ain engineer I wonder what wear and tear factors could shorten the life of a carbon crank. I have a lot of confidence in Campy, but FSA is attractive due to light weight.
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FSA tends to under-report K-Force weights by a considerable margin: https://weightweenies.starbike.com/li...type=cranksets
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what length crank arms do you use I might have a couple of FSA (Slk) and SRAM (Red) compacts?
I currently have a stronglight vulcan with FSA rings on one bike and have previously used both FSA (briefly) and Truuativ compacts without any issues.
I currently have a stronglight vulcan with FSA rings on one bike and have previously used both FSA (briefly) and Truuativ compacts without any issues.
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On my Mondonico I want to change to a carbon compact. It has a fairly modern Record aluminum crank 53/39.
Any carbon compacts that are to be avoided, like a well-known failure history? I'll probably be buying used.
The rest of the bike is Campy or American. Not against Shimano, just not for this bike.
Thanks!
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Any carbon compacts that are to be avoided, like a well-known failure history? I'll probably be buying used.
The rest of the bike is Campy or American. Not against Shimano, just not for this bike.
Thanks!
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10-13-08, 06:49 AM
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I'm using 172.5, but I could drop back to 170. My cadence is very comfortable with 170, but I'm getting "back up to speed" on 172.5, and the higher torque is nice. I wouldn't want to try 175's for a while.
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Hey, Celerystalksme! another Ann Arbor guy! I'm on the Old West Side, where are you?
I see number of used FSA K-force and SL-K out on Ebay, but as ain engineer I wonder what wear and tear factors could shorten the life of a carbon crank. I have a lot of confidence in Campy, but FSA is attractive due to light weight.
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I see number of used FSA K-force and SL-K out on Ebay, but as ain engineer I wonder what wear and tear factors could shorten the life of a carbon crank. I have a lot of confidence in Campy, but FSA is attractive due to light weight.
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The thing about FSA...yeah, apparently they lie like dogs about their weights. I'm not trying to dump on FSA...but I'm dumping on FSA just a teeny tiny tiny bit.
