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Old 01-27-11 | 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by FKMTB07
If that's actually happening to your cranks, you have a bad set. It has nothing to do with their use on a fixed gear bike.
Eh, while it's true that he probably has a bad set, it's not like there aren't unique things happening to the cranks on a fixed gear.

A road bike crank only ever experiences tangential force in one specific direction, and this is not reversible or subject to assembly error. It's not inconceivable that a manufacturer could design cranks to be stiffer in one direction than the other, and I'd even say it would be smart.

Whether or not FSA has done that, I doubt it. But it wouldn't be illogical if they did.
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