a domestic or euro crankset?!
OK, so I am building (after many years of lusting and sweating it) a 29er Moots YBB with S&S couplers to travel the US and Europe, and wherever the hell else dr. hot czech and i end up and want to mountain bike.
With that I had the idea to make the bike primarily of domestic US production, which is impossible because of tires and tubes and cables and such. But anyway as much as I am an idealist it has more to do with the fact that I don’t really want a $500 set of carbon cranks made by a machine in Taiwan on my handcrafted in the US from wholly US materials custom titanium bike. (and i’m even down with carbon) So I’m thinking that with European parts filling out the rest, since this is where i’ll be riding, I should be able to make the most of it(outside of my avid disc brakes which i am unwilling to part with.)
But I haven’t found a good set of cranks. I want bearing durability (ie. no ISIS) so a square taper or external BB and to run a single 38T chainring with a bash guard to a Rolhoff hub.
So where do I find this mystery crankset. I’m completely open to anything from a Record aluminum crankset(Casey wants me to use a track crankset, although the availability or bashguards is slim) to some locally machined thing, so long as it’s not one of the Kooka deals that likes to snap off.
What do you think? Could a forged aluminum road crank be up to mountain abuse?
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hey case, guess who’s mtn cranks are made in N. America? Race Face.
raceface is still ultra gay. treks are made in the usa, case in point.
Why don’t you sack up, and drop a G on these Zero-Gs.
those zero gs look even gayer that shimano saints.
It would be sweet if Johnson would stop using “gay” as a synonym for “sucks.”
Anway, these FSA cranks look legitimatley like what you want. Not sure about country of origin.
A. gay has been used as a synonym throughout the ages, and i see no reason why that should change now. were there no gay people when gay meant happy? does that mean all gays are happy or are there some pissed ones too? the dictionary defines gay as: Of, relating to, or having a sexual orientation to persons of the same sex.
Showing or characterized by cheerfulness and lighthearted excitement; merry.
Bright or lively, especially in color: a gay, sunny room.
Given to social pleasures.
Dissolute; licentious.
its not like i say those cranks would only be ridden by fags.
anyway, fsa makes everything in tiachina, those cranks are intense heavy, and the q factor on them is retarded.
also, on a cold forging note, i guarentee any campy aluminum crank could deal with off road usage. why couldnt it? shimano cranks are routinely used for cyclocross… should it be used is a better question, and the answer is fuck yeah, they are rad. also: floyd won rocking a square taper bb, and none of us are that manly. or gay. ha