Indeed. Our resident Lovefilosofer speaks truths like no other. And if your heart is NOS Campy - best swap it out.

The NOS thing never really made a lot of sense to me. When I realized I wasn't going to use some "desirable" hubs I had for a while, people thought I was nuts for selling them.
Dude...they are suntours!
No, they were. Now they are $400 in my pocket. Disposable income has a new friend, and its first name is NOS.


Materialism is the new bohemian.

Campy and Shimano both have a history of broken cranks.
A few years ago Shimano had a huge recall and was replacing cranks for free.
The failure is never from torque as the thread would suggest but from material / manufacturing flaws that develop into cracks and then propagate until the crank is weak enough to fail. Eventually your little sister could have broken the crank too.

shh.

don't piss on his ego like that.

fsnl
sparky

Seriously - I'm just going to go ahead and ignore that post... and the other one about the crack having already existed.

*runs off to tell co-workers about LEGS OF POWER

same exact thing just happened to my friend kevin's cannondale; he went off the bike and had a pretty bad spill because of it. of course he weighs over 200lbs and i've never seen anyone beat a bike up like he does, but still. that's f'in crazy.

I weigh 210lbs.

Campy Super Record cranks tend to develop cracks on the "web" between the crank arm and the trailing spider arm. They should be checked often for cracks there, and also around the pedal threads. This probably does you no good now, but a common "fix" is to lightly take a round file to the sharp edge of said web where these cracks occur. I have had the same cracks appear in Campy Pista arms of this era as well. I've read that these web cracks rarely lead to crank failure, but apparently they do. My understanding is that crank failure around the pedal threads is more of an issue, but in any case if you ride on a pair of these cranks, you should inspect them from time to time.