Originally Posted by
Duragrouch
If you are willing to tolerate 4 bolt patterns, and especially asymm 4 bolt, you should have plenty of options.
I being retro style, I wanted a 5 bolt spider on a standard BCD.
You may also want to check Litepro, a lot of folks use their stuff, however some of it looks just a little bit too light for me on the rings. But if you need to swap the ring anyway, you might be able to find the right crank only in Litepro, then buy standard rings for it.
My town has one of the best bike shops in the country for their supply bins of used parts, and I might have gone that route, but the Prowheel crank complete with rings and bearings, was cheaper than same in good shape at the bike shop.
Thak you! Unfortunately, the Litepro has only 170mm cranks on Ali for my destination, I am 194cm tall so its not very ergonomic to me.
I know, Shimano Cues not very nice choice in terms of appereance. But I probably don't have many options in 175mm or 172.5mm lengths. I would probably combine the Cues with some full "aero" chainring like KEOS from Ali, and thus shift the look to modern, for this type of cranks it would probably be a better choice.
Do you happen to know how big of a gap between the inner face of the crank and the rear frame is common on road/gravel bikes? In my first post, I have 0-1mm in the photo, but I don't actually know what condition is close to ideal.