Originally Posted by
ChuckM77
I bought the Stronglight cranks for the roller bearing BB, which is indestructible as far as I can tell. The chainrings are a different story, softer material and wear faster than Campy in my experience.
Chuck
Originally Posted by
bikemig
Dunno, It has been a while but I've seen some Rockwell hardness tests for chainrings and Stronglight chainrings were pretty respectable.
When I was with Trek, we did some hardness testing of various chainrings. I don't remember the numbers, but Campagnolo and Stronglight were the hardest, and pretty close to each other, Sakae Ringyo, Sugino and Shimano were softer and pretty close to each other, and TA was the softest.