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Didn't sell on ebay at previous price, so deep price cut/drop. Enjoy!
Cook Bros Racing's CBR Crankset (Dog bones). 171 mm arm length. (Rings are 46/34/24 110mm QBP (similar, if not identical to the Salsa rings, probably due to the relationship between Salsa and QBP; solid, but not boutique or special, though imo, they look great with the cranks)
£171.00 GBP ($280.00 USD)
Shipping/Post is $12.00 USD for national/international; one price, anywhere in the world
There appears to be some confusion with the Cook Bros Cranks. Every week you see "Cook's" cranks on ebay listed as cook bros racing cranks, when they are actually cook's quality products (CQP). They have a different spider, and have a notched triangle on the backside of the drive side crank arm. They also have a different shape.
Then you have true Cook Bros Racing cranks, but dated wrong, like people writing in their ad that "E" cranks are from the 80's. no. They would be mid-90's. From what I've been able to garner from a friend and from google seaches, for most of the 80's Cook Bros Racing made a single MTB crankset, affectionately called the "dog bone" for their shape and sturdiness/stiffness- the logo was small print, close to the center of the crank, in a cool script type font, this was from 1983 to 1988. Then they were preparing to roll out a new mtb crankset, based off the dogbone, but with a different spider, slightly more slender, and with the arms milled out in a semi-oval shape in the back; these would be called the RSR, now leaving the older design to be called the CBR. The logo changed on both of them, to the more commonly known/seen large block lettering, taking up most of the arm's length.
The cranks I'm selling here would be the CBR, (formerly nameless, with dogbone nickname), right after the font change, but before the spider change. Arms are not milled, and the spider is the old style with the tiny inner ring screws. Based on what I've read, and seen, I believe these to be stronger than the later cranks, though they are a bit heavier. These are also harder to find, and often misrepresented.
I don't want to sell these, as I acquired them from a friend, and didn't want to put them on the open market. As I try to keep the most dear of my meager collection, priorities are set, and hard cuts made, so up for sale they go...
If anything I stated, regarding the vintage of this crankset, or CBR history is wrong, please feel free to correct me. I want to learn, and I'm far from an expert. I hope, I too, have not misrepresented Cook Bros cranks.
ok ok, enough, as usual, many photos, (some would say, redundant overkill) to give the most accurate idea of the condition of the cranks. There are some light surface scratches, and one deep scratch, perhaps a gouge, on the back of the driveside arm right by the outer ring. Also, along where the dust caps would sit, there has been some scratching and chipping. It has been photographed closely.
If you took time to read all this; I, sincerely, thank you.
Photos:
Cook Bros Racing's CBR Crankset (Dog bones). 171 mm arm length. (Rings are 46/34/24 110mm QBP (similar, if not identical to the Salsa rings, probably due to the relationship between Salsa and QBP; solid, but not boutique or special, though imo, they look great with the cranks)
£171.00 GBP ($280.00 USD)
Shipping/Post is $12.00 USD for national/international; one price, anywhere in the world
There appears to be some confusion with the Cook Bros Cranks. Every week you see "Cook's" cranks on ebay listed as cook bros racing cranks, when they are actually cook's quality products (CQP). They have a different spider, and have a notched triangle on the backside of the drive side crank arm. They also have a different shape.
Then you have true Cook Bros Racing cranks, but dated wrong, like people writing in their ad that "E" cranks are from the 80's. no. They would be mid-90's. From what I've been able to garner from a friend and from google seaches, for most of the 80's Cook Bros Racing made a single MTB crankset, affectionately called the "dog bone" for their shape and sturdiness/stiffness- the logo was small print, close to the center of the crank, in a cool script type font, this was from 1983 to 1988. Then they were preparing to roll out a new mtb crankset, based off the dogbone, but with a different spider, slightly more slender, and with the arms milled out in a semi-oval shape in the back; these would be called the RSR, now leaving the older design to be called the CBR. The logo changed on both of them, to the more commonly known/seen large block lettering, taking up most of the arm's length.
The cranks I'm selling here would be the CBR, (formerly nameless, with dogbone nickname), right after the font change, but before the spider change. Arms are not milled, and the spider is the old style with the tiny inner ring screws. Based on what I've read, and seen, I believe these to be stronger than the later cranks, though they are a bit heavier. These are also harder to find, and often misrepresented.
I don't want to sell these, as I acquired them from a friend, and didn't want to put them on the open market. As I try to keep the most dear of my meager collection, priorities are set, and hard cuts made, so up for sale they go...
If anything I stated, regarding the vintage of this crankset, or CBR history is wrong, please feel free to correct me. I want to learn, and I'm far from an expert. I hope, I too, have not misrepresented Cook Bros cranks.
ok ok, enough, as usual, many photos, (some would say, redundant overkill) to give the most accurate idea of the condition of the cranks. There are some light surface scratches, and one deep scratch, perhaps a gouge, on the back of the driveside arm right by the outer ring. Also, along where the dust caps would sit, there has been some scratching and chipping. It has been photographed closely.
If you took time to read all this; I, sincerely, thank you.
Photos:
