I just put 102mm Torker cranks on my beloved Nimbus 36, and have been
riding around, and I'm really disappointed to say that I bent them all
over the place (I lost count of the number of "times"😉 just by riding
around and stopping rapidly. I've been practicing using my brake to
stop from high speed, by leaning back and grabbing the brake handle
VERY hard to stay up (thus slowing down) and I pull up with what feels
like a lot of force on my T7, putting a ton of back pressure into the
rear pedal, -despite- having my brake on like crazy, and there were at
least three instances where, in stopping crazily like that, the crank
that was facing backward ended up bent. What's even more crazy is that
I'm able to unbend the cranks by moving them into the opposite
direction they were in, then kicking the pedal really hard a few
times.
On my old aluminum 125 cranks, which are supposedly MORE bendable than
these new 102s, I could ride off curbs without a problem and not even
think about bending them; now on my 102s, after having tried it a
couple times, riding off curbs is out of the question! It's a good
thing I can kick the cranks back to (approximately) straight after I
mess them up!
Are cheap steel cranks really this bendable, or did I just get a bad
pair? I can't imagine there'd be any differences in the actual steel
they use to make these things, so I don't see why mine would be softer
than any others.
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chuckaeronut
Cycling: It doesn't get easier; you just get faster.
Unicycling: It doesn't get easier; you just do tougher stuff.
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