Originally Posted by
Cute Boy Horse
Brick Lane Bikes is not a framebuilder, it is an overpriced and underskilled shop in Brick Lane, London. They are famous for an incident where they cut off someone's 70s stronglight cranks using an angle grinder, and then acting like they didn't know why that customer was upset. They do not make frames, though they do buy Chinese ones and put their sticker on it.
Anything else you need clearing up?
in their defense some(all?) stronglights of that era do require a specific crank puller that is not widely available today. so if the crank wasnt being reused i see no serious issue with cutting it off, its not ideal though. also one mishap in service and the whole operation is ****?