Broken Lasco crank...

lascos break easily, and bend easier. I would go with maybe some bicycle
euros, or maybe nimbus X cranks or something. Odyssey Black Widows are
nice too.

Or get splined, as you might in the future. but that's expensive, so you
probably don't want to.

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Splined cranks (which would be nice, I agree) would mean a new hub, and
I'm not going to those lengths yet.

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Fuego said:

*lascos break easily, and bend easier. I would go with maybe some
bicycle euros, or maybe nimbus X cranks or something. Odyssey Black
Widows are nice too.

Or get splined, as you might in the future. but that's expensive, so
you probably don't want to. *

The Odyssey Black Widow cranks are pretty. But they're not the
strongest option. People have bent and broken the Odyssey cranks. The
Odyssey cranks are also expensive.

Kayote: What crank length are you looking for?

The Kooka cranks are very strong and very stiff and very good. But you
can't get them any more.

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I've been riding on 170s. I know that seems long to a lot of folks, but
I like 'em. I'm on a 26" tire. If there's a convincing argument for
going with shorter cranks, I might listen, but I was awfully fond of
those 170s.

Anybody?

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You can get the Sugino 170mm tandem cranks. They're quality cranks and
not expensive. You can order them online or from most bike shops. See
'this thread' (http://tinyurl.com/4tmqw) for the details and a link to
where to order them online.

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I, personnally would go with the:
'170mm Bicycle Euro Cranks'
(http://www.unicycle.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=165)
They seem to be your best option, although I have never heard anything
about:
'Shimano Deore XT 170mm Cranks' (http://www.unicycle.com/shopping/sho
pexd.asp?id=174) or the 'Dotek 170mm cranks'
(http://www.unicycle.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=621).

The shimano's are a bit pricy at 99 bucks, but of you ever get to the
point of destroying BE cranks on a regular basis, and still don't want a
splined setup, you might want to cough up and go for them. The dotek's
are the same price as the BE's so you might want to try one or the
other.

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A buddy of mine just got a set of those Doteks. Pity he's only been on
them for a couple of weeks- I'd like to see how they hold up before
buying anything...

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Just for the sake of it...

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im going to have a bunch of stuff for sale in the auction part of this
site later tonite and one of those items is a torker DX wheel that has a
splind hub and cranks..not sure on the price yet but it may be worth a
look later. like 1am PST time.

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I've had real good luck with Nimbus X cranks on my Muni. I don't do big
drops (probably 24-30 "😉 and they haven't come loose or bent. My Muni
has been known to go tumbing violently downhill without me, though 😄
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Get Euros. I think I spent somewhere around $30-35 US.

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Nah. No Euros. Like I said earlier, a buddy of mine just had to
replace a pair. They twisted up pretty badly after very little time.
It may just be a length thing- 170's kind of long for such a skinny
piece of metal. Or maybe it's cause of weight. My pal's just over 200,
and his son, who did most of the damage, is a football-player-sort of
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Hmmm. Well, maybe they vary by batch or something. My 150s held up to
220 pounds dropping 18 inches. 😕 Just my 2c.

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That's encouraging. How long have you had (did you have) them? And what
kind of riding do you do?

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I had them about 4 months. Then I gave that uni to my brother when I
got my Summit. I was mostly just a "ride to class" rider, but I had
starting doing trials with it. It was a United 24. It was with that
one that I learned how to crank stall, hop, hop stairs, and I can't
remember if I ever rode down stairs with it. But I was waaay over 200
pounds at the time. For 35 bucks, I thought they held up pretty well.
You do have to pay attention to the tightness. I had to give them a
little torque every week or 10 days of riding. I even took it on some
Muni last summer. Sun BFR rim, 2.125 tire, granted not the widest in
the world, but still worked.

And now my brother is starting to to trialsy stuff with it. That's why
I say the cranks worked. You know, don't go nuts with them. I'm sure
if I had gotten up to higher drops, something would have given out, but
I never pushed it that far, mostly because I haven't gotten that good
yet. 2.5 to 3 feet is my max drop right now, and that's on my Summit.
So pushing cranks to their edge isn't my forte. 😄

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Yeah, my starter was a stock Torker 24" street ride. I learned stairs
and hopping and all, then tweaked the rim pretty badly when I first got
on trails and fell down on it. That's when the cranks started to give
up, too. One was bent and wouldn't stay tight for very long any more. I
got the lasco cranks on a used uni. Didn't have 'em properly tightened
for a while and thought I'd wrecked them. That's when I ordered a pair
of Bicycle Euros. I wound up redoing the hub and rim, and learned how
to get the Lascos on right. Sold the old rim, hub and brand new Euro
cranks to a buddy. He and his son managed to twist the left crank so
badly after six months or so (The dad says it was his son hopping up and
down off things, the son said it must have been his dad's weight) that
it finally looked like one of those wagons on an old 'Little Rascals'
short film. It was nuts, but he kept on riding til some proper Doteks
finally came in. I'm thinking maybe the Euros were just the victim of
their own length and a lot of learning time by more than one rider.

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Kayote said:

* I'm thinking maybe the Euros were just the victim of their own
length and a lot of learning time by more than one rider. *

That's what happened to the original cranks that were on that thing. I
tweaked one downward when I started hopping. Probably just bad form,
and I kept riding the crank. I bent the othe one when I biffed a hop
down a stair. I bent it outwards about 45 degrees. The bike shop bent
it back to almost close. So I rode these el cheapo cranks bent slightly
for the longest time.

Then I let this kid I met ride it. He was a rider but he had such awful
hopping form. I mean, he was pogoing and just slamming the wheel down.
I eventually got it back and as I rode away, the cranks felt uber weird.
I looked at them and they were tweaked the opposite way. He had bent
both cranks back to normal and then more the other direction! He hops
with right forward, I hop left forward, so I know it was him who bent
them to their death. And he was way lighter than me! I never said
anything about it. I just viewed it as incentive to get new cranks
after riding then bent for over 6 months. So form, and teaching others
does have a bearing on how well they hold up.

Edit; the original cranks and the new Euros were both 150mm. Just for
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john_childs said:

*The Kooka cranks are very strong and very stiff and very good. But
you can't get them any more. *

ah but 'i just did!!!!' (http://tinyurl.com/5wpxn) 😄

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jagur said:

*ah but 'i just did!!!!' (http://tinyurl.com/5wpxn) 😄 *

Nice! And a good price. 😄

Now you need a suitable unicycle to put them on.

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