I was actually just looking at the reviews on amazon as well. I'll definitely star clear. There seem to be some shimano Altus cranks for reasonable prices as well. I have used them in the past on my older mountain bike and they worked pretty well.

This brings up a new issue. I am planning on only using one of the chain rings on the Fixie. I would like to mess with the gear ratios a bit though. I so I was thinking of buying a triple crank set and just taking he gears I am not using off of the crank spider. I have many chains to use with the different chaining sizes, so that isn't an issue . any thoughts on this idea?