I think the Model 93 is the best-looking crank of all time--there's something about that blocky look that I really like. It's like the designers were channelling the chunk-style designs of the 1980s fifteen years ahead of time.

Plus, of course, there's that wonderfully cut-out crank spider with all the open space. True, it's not as beautifully finished as the Campagnolo cranks of the same era, which had that silky anodizing, but the Stronglight cranks had the advantage of being pretty much indestructible. The Campy cranks had a distressing habit of cracking where the crankarm merged with the spider. Great Italian design, flawed execution. The only damaged 93s I've ever seen got that way because someone without the right tool took hammer or a gear puller to them.

I knew a mechanic once--a pretty good one--who swore that he'd taken off countless Stronglight cranks with the TA puller, and claimed never to have ruined one (He did concede that it wasn't "a class A fit." ) I think he was nuts, though. Use the right puller. They're out there.