Cotters: Care and Feeding

My old 24 is cottered. The pins themselves are very cheep.
Get 1/2 dozen and sleep easy. I changed mine when I switched
cranks. That's the last I thought about them. (Taking my own
advise, I still have 4).

I think too many drops will bend your cranks on an old
schwinn. I don't do drops of more than curb height on my old
trusted 24.

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Go easy with cottered cranks. They don't tend to stand up to
much abuse. I bent a pair of cottered cranks just trying to
ride up a steep hill. There wasn't even any hopping
involved, just lots of torque.

Our last long distance offroad adventure was a fairly gentle
40km track with a little bit of single track and no drops.
The cottered crank unicycle we had with us caused us no ned
ofproblems. It needed to be tightened every 5km or so and
eventually the cotter pin sheared off and fell out.

I would recommend limiting a cottered crank unicycle to
riding around town, no steep hills, no curbs, no hopping, no
dirt trails.

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-Peter Bier

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