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Old 09-13-12, 11:18 AM
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Originally Posted by HillRider


OK, anything can fail on occasion but that looks like a break induced by a serious scratch or other stress raiser across the crank arm.
I'm not really familiar with those cranks, but it appears there is an insert in the arm (perhaps for the "Octalink" splines?), and the failure propagated from the end of that insert.
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