Lighest DH cranks
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get reallll smooth and run dura-ace.
Gravity Light cranks were by far the most popular for 2008, and I would assume they will be again for 2009.
Gravity Light Cranks
Gravity Light Cranks
shimano hone's with the steel inserts and 2ring/bash are light, stiff, and relatively strong.
do they have just the Gravity Light arms for sale...w/out the bb, bashring and chainrings?Gravity Light cranks were by far the most popular for 2008, and I would assume they will be again for 2009.
Gravity Light Cranks
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what width bottom bracket do you have? if u have 83mm then the atlas fr is the strongest lightest crank for that width, but if u have 73mm then a hone or slx or atlas is your lightest choice
if its 83mm then middleburn RS7!
Even if its 68 or 73 middys are still stupid light and extremely tough!
Even if its 68 or 73 middys are still stupid light and extremely tough!
Middleburns
Any word on an external BB version? Me no likey ISIS.Middleburns
Maybe I got the golden ISIS BB, its held for over a year bashing it. I have had buddies with more issues with the bearings on external BBs. My bearings are still intact and running good (not great
). But thats in wet weather, drops to flat, dusty hot etc.... 110 degrees to 5 degrees. My crank arms are still straight and the BB is still SOLID! Ill be changing it this season before Otter but Ill keep it around as a spare!.
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Just got some Hone's on eBay.
I actually sent them an email a while go asking them just that, when they where letting go of 1999 = no reply
They are having a contest with Chris King to see who can resist the move to the 21st century for the longest.....
uhh... point me in the direction of a Chris King product that isn't "up to date"...?
Headset...designed in the 70s and 100% unchanged with the advent of threadless. The threadless version is a very poor design from an engineering standpoint and proves this over and over when used on current forks.
1.5 headset shares the same poor design (with a band-aid headlock to try to cover) and takes away one huge benefit of 1.5 due to the massive stack height.
150 rear hub has incorrect spacing on drive side...ring drive system has excess drag...hard use requires 'upgrading' to the HD axle and steel freehub shell or they dont last long. Only the very latest version of hubs do not continually self-loosen...incompatibility with shimano cassettes because of non chamfered freehub..
promised ISIS bb for 5+ years????
external bb....$130 for two bearings and two cups??? still using a 25mm ID bearing with plastic spacer rather than larger 24mm ID...greasing (the only possible advance feature) requires you to purchase (as yet unavailable) propriatary king greas tool for $??....
for that price of the bb, you could buy 7 sets of repalacement bearings for the bb you already own...and keep the $$ from the grease tool.
1.5 headset shares the same poor design (with a band-aid headlock to try to cover) and takes away one huge benefit of 1.5 due to the massive stack height.
150 rear hub has incorrect spacing on drive side...ring drive system has excess drag...hard use requires 'upgrading' to the HD axle and steel freehub shell or they dont last long. Only the very latest version of hubs do not continually self-loosen...incompatibility with shimano cassettes because of non chamfered freehub..
promised ISIS bb for 5+ years????
external bb....$130 for two bearings and two cups??? still using a 25mm ID bearing with plastic spacer rather than larger 24mm ID...greasing (the only possible advance feature) requires you to purchase (as yet unavailable) propriatary king greas tool for $??....
for that price of the bb, you could buy 7 sets of repalacement bearings for the bb you already own...and keep the $$ from the grease tool.
Middleburns - 478g per pair including the spider.
SLX=garbage. My buddy got a set and promptly yanked the pedal insert off of one on their first ride.
So because one person had a faulty product, the entire line is garbage. Brilliant.
while we are on the subject, we can talk about how terrible their hubs are considering you need to rebuild the rears with several hundred dollars worth of parts/tools and it takes an hour+ for someone who has done it several hundred times, where most other similar hub designs (dt/hugi in particular) take maybe 5 minutes and if you need to replace the star drive parts its like $50.
I also stripped a set of slx cranks. Shimano promptly sent me a new set, I sold them as new, and went back to saints.
I have also bent gravity lights, so have many others. ISIS is a hassle to work on, shimano's are on and off with hardly any effort, and it does not wear the splines to remove them. I like to remove my cranks every month or two to get a good cleaning, so race face is out (splines wear quickly).
I will switch from my old style saints to the new style, but only for weight purposes. My 07 saints are still running strong on all 3 of my bikes.
I have seen Hones on many bikes, never heard anything bad, seems like a good alternative to saints.
I have also bent gravity lights, so have many others. ISIS is a hassle to work on, shimano's are on and off with hardly any effort, and it does not wear the splines to remove them. I like to remove my cranks every month or two to get a good cleaning, so race face is out (splines wear quickly).
I will switch from my old style saints to the new style, but only for weight purposes. My 07 saints are still running strong on all 3 of my bikes.
I have seen Hones on many bikes, never heard anything bad, seems like a good alternative to saints.
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Middleburns, and dietys with Ti spindle (there lighter than gravity lights cause you can run that special LG1 rin)
Just out of curiosity in regards to the SLX, what frames were these bikes on, and how much do you guys weigh? I was considering putting a set of these on my sxt in place of saints.
How do you figure this??
g-lights arms and bb = 794g http://www.sicklines.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/4303
chainring = 44g
http://www.sicklines.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=765
chainring bolts = 26g http://www.sicklines.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/4305
total = 864g total
Deity vendetta (deitys own claimed weights) http://www.deitycomponents.com/vendetta_specs.htm
arms and ti spindle = 754g
euro bb = 207
spider and ring ~ 150g (superspider and e-13 ring)
or deity ring when avialable = 102g (claimed)
bolts = 26g
total = 1137 - 1089g
posted pics on mtbr from several people lean toward actual weight being more than claimed, and the ti spindle is not exactly a hard use item...
I thought the BB was included in the arm and spindle weight
Interesting. A friend of mine runs SLX on his Socom and hadn't any problem yet. He is normally known for stripping pedal threads fast.
i have 8 years on the same headset w/ no issue. every bike ive had has had a King headset on it w/ 0 issues.
granted their new 1.5 headset is huge, but i still bought one anyway b/c of my luck with them. i also just bought their external BB, but have yet to install yet since my frame is not ready yet. i agree that $130 is a lot for a BB though. i, thankfully did not pay that
and who still wants isis anyway?
man, all the core funny mustache singlespeeders run square taper.
i miss square bb's
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