Thread: Cottered Cranks
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Old 01-16-12 | 11:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Six jours
I swear, some of you guys must have been beaten with cottered cranks as children.
Naaah, as a kid all of my bikes had Ashtabula cranks which made even crude cottered cranks seem like featherweights. I just don't see the benefit of getting tools and parts to salvage what is a deservedly obsolete design.
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