Damnable Bontrager!!!

"Chuck W" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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| I've been on my new Fisher a week and a half (or about). It's a huge
| improvement over my old ride, with one exception... the damned crankset.
|
| Until I bought this bike, I thought chainsuck was some excuse you guys
made
| up when you got bit because you couldn't adjust your gear properly.
| Suddenly I was averaging two stops a ride to get off the bike and yank the
| damned chain out of the space between the 2nd and 3rd chainrings.
|
| I put up with it for a week, then finally ordered a TruVativ crankset.
Put
| it on day before yesterday, and smooth as glass ever since. I guess I
| should read the FAQ more carefully.
|
| In other news, the sudden jamming of my cranks mere inches from a jump
| screwed my rhythm enough that I did my first endo on the new bike.
| Shoulder's had me almost out of action for the last few days, but not
quite
| (just off the trails for now).
|
| -Chuck W
|
|

Back in my Spokes & Pedals days, we never did too much high-end business.
In the first year of production, we sold only 3 Sugar 1s and we couldn't get
any one of them to shift correctly in the front. They would perform
flawlessly on the stand but once you got them on real dirt they would not
shift almost at all.

Surprisingly Fisher owned right up to the problem and authorized us to
install XTR cranks and FDs (as pictured all over the store with Paola Pezzo
sitting on it) and the shifting was perfect.

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Chuck W said:

I've been on my new Fisher a week and a half (or about). It's a huge
improvement over my old ride, with one exception... the damned
crankset.

Until I bought this bike, I thought chainsuck was some excuse you
guys made up when you got bit because you couldn't adjust your gear
properly. Suddenly I was averaging two stops a ride to get off the
bike and yank the damned chain out of the space between the 2nd and
3rd chainrings.

I put up with it for a week, then finally ordered a TruVativ
crankset. Put it on day before yesterday, and smooth as glass ever
since. I guess I should read the FAQ more carefully.

In other news, the sudden jamming of my cranks mere inches from a jump
screwed my rhythm enough that I did my first endo on the new bike.
Shoulder's had me almost out of action for the last few days, but not
quite (just off the trails for now).

-Chuck W

Every single person I know that has a Fisher (cake, Sugar, etc) has had
their Bontcrappers replaced with Shimano XT or XTR's. This seems to be a
common problem with the cranks on this bike.

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"Ride-A-Lot" <mitchell@[nospam]schnauzers.ws> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Every single person I know that has a Fisher (cake, Sugar, etc) has had
their Bontcrappers replaced with Shimano XT or XTR's. This seems to be a
common problem with the cranks on this bike.

Well, my Sugar crankset was replaced with RaceFace. But your point is
vaild* - Bontrager cranks were/are total [censored].

My big ring lost two teeth in a week.

Chris
*Since I don't know you, your point is valid regardless. So I'm just a
[censored].

Quoted message said:

Every single person I know that has a Fisher (cake, Sugar, etc) has
had their Bontcrappers replaced with Shimano XT or XTR's. This seems
to be a common problem with the cranks on this bike.

My friend with a Tassajara is also a chainsuck victim. Turns out some of
the teeth on the middle ring were bent from the factory.

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Phil, Squid-in-Training