Originally Posted by
fietsbob
I have some, black anodized alloy bolt, red anodized ring, (although you need to make it worthwhile to be sending them) .
I took them out and went to steel ones because its more practical,,
& I had a square taper crank ruined by having a self extracting ring strip out the crank threads.. on another bike ..
so I removed them on this one..
If you are concerned with stripping crank threads, don't use a steel extractor ring that is stronger than the crank.