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Old 11-05-20 | 05:48 PM
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Originally Posted by scott967
Did Look give up on the Zed cranks? Seemed like a pretty innovative design but a bit too one-off for me.

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Semi-innovative as I believe they are really just an improvement upon old and cheap one-piece cranksets (being all CF and huge spindle) but a shame they require the proprietary 65mm bb shell to fit the NDS crank arm through. Have not used them so can't comment on them supposedly being far stiffer than more common cranks.

Originally Posted by Mulberry20
Anyone have one or know someone with one?
Yep, have an 875 madison track that I used last year for racing. I like the more classic design with rounder tubes compared to other nice track frames. This had a BSA bb because its a track bike so no idea on the bb for road frames but hambini seems to like them almost as much as Time.
Anyways, the quality is very very high, the paint (blue is really nice and consistent and looks awesome in the light.
The steerer tube I feel is pretty indicative of what the frame looks like underneath the paint and that was, at least from a non-carbon-expert perspective; the best I'd ever seen. It was so purdy that I kept what I cut off... and comparing it to the off-cut from my tarmac... its considerably better, the tarmac one has bubbles (voids? not sure) and stuff. Oh yea and stiff af but its a track frame so can't really compare it to road bikes.

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