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Old 10-10-09 | 09:17 AM
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lose cranks?

So I have a windsor the hour and ive been riding it for about 3 months now and ive been doing a fair about of skidding the past couple days and I have relised that my cranks or pedals seem to be getting lose. When i go to tighten my pedals they are tightend all the way down and when I take allen wrench to my cranks I cant get them to move one bit. Nothing clicks when I ride it just seems kinda off to me, If you guys could hep me out that would be great.

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Old 10-10-09 | 09:43 AM
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Tighten your cog/lockring? Check your chainring bolts and chain tension?
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Old 10-10-09 | 11:04 AM
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sounds like chain tension or ruined cranks
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Old 10-11-09 | 12:11 AM
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Tighten your fixed cog/sprocket and the lockring on the rear wheel.
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Old 10-11-09 | 12:52 AM
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sounds like chain tension/stretch, loose chainring bolts, or maybe loose BB. if it's your cranks that need tightening, you need an impact wrench or a torque wrench to do it right.
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Old 10-11-09 | 09:46 AM
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its lame how you need so many diffrent tools to fix a bike
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Originally Posted by tFUnK
impact wrench
No. GTFO
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Old 10-11-09 | 10:10 AM
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a torque wrench to do it right.
yup, and a nice long one. a little 6 inch hex key won't do the job
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Old 10-11-09 | 10:15 AM
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This sounds exactly like a loose bb to me.

when your pedals are at 12/1 o'clock, grab them while standing over the bike and see if there's any side to side movement.

If there is, you'll probably need to get in there and crank your bb lockring down a bit.

Is this a sealed unit or an open ball bb?
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Old 10-11-09 | 10:18 AM
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Originally Posted by jus7aphs3
its lame how you need so many diffrent tools to fix a bike
Yeah, it's even worse with multiple bikes, some new parts, some older parts, different crank/BB designs, cassettes, fixed gear, proprietary parts, etc...
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