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Dirt Disciple
Hello all...
Can I pick your brains please? Out for a good heart-pumping ride this week on my '98 Mantra and I had my left crank arm fail me with no warning (see the image below)
To my surprise, I didn't come off but 30 seconds before I was on a main road, and they'd still be shovelling my remains up now if it had failed then.
You'd like to think this is a one-off event but the thing is, I've had this happen before (with another Truvativ crank).
Any advice on the following would be great:
1: Where can I source a 175 mm square taper crank arm (ideally black) which I can actually trust? With no warning when riding, I need to know I have a crank that either won't fail, or give me plenty of warning that it is...
2: If I avoid an aluminium crank arm and get a steel jobbie instead (on the assumption I'd get more warning of the crank arm failing again), do you think it would up to the job? Any suggestions for a particular model would be most welcome.
I'd like to avoid Truvativ for the replacement - for obvious reasons - so that rules out SRAM stuff currently on the market too.
All advice gratefully received - Lack of confidence isn't an attribute normally applied to me, but after two close scrapes, I want to make sure I don't have a third unlucky scrape with the same issue!
Can I pick your brains please? Out for a good heart-pumping ride this week on my '98 Mantra and I had my left crank arm fail me with no warning (see the image below)
To my surprise, I didn't come off but 30 seconds before I was on a main road, and they'd still be shovelling my remains up now if it had failed then.
You'd like to think this is a one-off event but the thing is, I've had this happen before (with another Truvativ crank).
Any advice on the following would be great:
1: Where can I source a 175 mm square taper crank arm (ideally black) which I can actually trust? With no warning when riding, I need to know I have a crank that either won't fail, or give me plenty of warning that it is...
2: If I avoid an aluminium crank arm and get a steel jobbie instead (on the assumption I'd get more warning of the crank arm failing again), do you think it would up to the job? Any suggestions for a particular model would be most welcome.
I'd like to avoid Truvativ for the replacement - for obvious reasons - so that rules out SRAM stuff currently on the market too.
All advice gratefully received - Lack of confidence isn't an attribute normally applied to me, but after two close scrapes, I want to make sure I don't have a third unlucky scrape with the same issue!
