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Old 04-24-09 | 06:26 PM
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HillRider
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Bikes: '96 Litespeed Catalyst, '05 Litespeed Firenze, '06 Litespeed Tuscany, '20 Surly Midnight Special, All are 3x10. It is hilly around here!

The large chainring is swaged permanently to the crank arm and can't be removed or replaced. The smaller ring can be unbolted and replaced.

Basically, this is a very low-line crank and the nutted bottom bracket further indicates this entire thing was pretty much bottom of the product line. If you want to use this cranks as a single chainring, you've got to use the existing big ring as is.

You could replace it with any JIS square taper crank if (and this is a big if) the current spindle is the correct length. Frankly, I'd get a complete new crank and matching bottom bracket.
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