Originally Posted by
mihlbach
I've seen plenty of 165 road cranks for sale, including 600s, but, yes, 170s do appear to be more common. I use 170s on a conversion and pedal strike is not a serious issue.
Many cheap SS cranks are actually road (double) cranks sold with only a single ring. You can run one chainring on any crank, and there are plenty of chainring sizes available to obtain whatever gear ratio you want. Please get a clue.
When i ran the original road cranks that came on my bike, i had two choices. run the outer chainring of 52 or w.e teeth, or the inner one with 40 teeth. If you wanted to run the outer, you could simply unbolt the inner and that would be fine. If you wanted to run the inner, the only way to remove the outer chainring was to cut it off. I dont know if thats the case with all road cranks, apparently not, but that's what I thought. So all you assh*oles can stop being d1ckheads. this forum is unreal.