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12-16-08 | 09:51 PM

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Doohickie

You gonna eat that?

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From: Fort Worth, Texas Church of Hopeful Uncertainty

Bikes: 1966 Raleigh DL-1 Tourist, 1973 Schwinn Varsity, 1983 Raleigh Marathon, 1994 Nishiki Sport XRS

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Originally Posted by The Paper Boy

So you resurrected a 6 month old thread about an 11 year old warrenty on the off chance that your 8 year old bike may have the offending cranks?

You betcha. And apparently my bike is older than I thought because it has FC-CT90 cranks. I emailed my bike shop and will get with them tomorrow about replacing my cranks. And I'm glad I resurrected it; if I have bad cranks, there may still be others out there.

EDIT: I finally found a guide for decoding serial numbers for Raleigh USA bicycles. Later Nishikis were built in the same plant in Kent Washington, so the numbering scheme is probably the same. Based on that, my bike was actually produced on December 16, 1994 which puts it right in the range of the problem cranks.

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Last edited by Doohickie; 12-16-08 at 11:49 PM.

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