Originally Posted by
seypat
I guess that is why everyone has an opinion. The crank looks cool, but those holes sure are close to the bottom edge of the chainring. What happened at 11 o'clock? The driller wasn't watching what he/she was doing. The RD, no. I would rather have something cut out of the Z plate. Not feeling the dropouts either. The holes aren't uniform. That one that sticks out of the chrome zone makes it look like a garage job. Drillium is just not my thing.
You can even find some examples where cranks have broken at pantograph edges, so it doesn't take an awful lot to produce a stress-riser in a highly loaded aluminum part.