Most beautiful Crankset - a discussion thread

Eye of the beholder and all that.

I want Sweet Wings too, they are very nice in real life.
The pictures of that steel junk bsd in the post below them make the Sweet Wings look even better.

fucking horrible looking cranks!

y so cranky?

Ha. I should mention that I really enjoyed looking at so many ugly cranks!

they should be better! 10x better and even more than that! :)

I like the look of the ingrid cranks. Anyone know of a brand with a similar style (silver arm with black rings) but for a double? Thanks

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White Industries R30

Aliexpress has got your back

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005009691514.html

Thanks both! That aliX one is pretty cool, what’s the quality likely to be like?

Please no one buy this.
Looks like a blinged up version of that 'thing' (as its not a crankset) a customer demanded we fit to his bike (instead of his existing visually worn, but not split in half r6800 ultegra) that came with a Sensah 2x 11 group.
From memory the lockring that held the chainring set (machined out of one piece, but had no shift pins on it, so changed gear like a budget 80's bike) was made out of some kind of cookie dough, even over torquing it, still had play in the chainrings. When pushed into an ultegra HT2 BB, it had play, in some way the axle was not machined true, or was undersized somewhere within the bearing contact zone.
Pretty. But junk along with most other stuff that comes from the place that knocks out sensah and others*

*Seen several, all the rear mechs develop hellish play out of the box in the B axle and every single other part of them, the cassettes don't change very well and weigh the same as a building OR the lightish weight ones wear out faster than any chain does, have never seen teeth worn down yet chain not very worn before, again made from some kind of cookie dough instead of actual metal.
Rant over. Please stop buying stuff pushed by sponsored idiots on youtube.

Thanks Brickman, I don’t have any experience with AliX. Newb question, could I put a double chainring on an ingrid crank? Or will it not be wide enough?

All/most the aliexpress cranksets have aluminium spindles (!) too, which no mainstream manufacturer does afaik. Have seen one where through normal usage the spindle has worn and snapped where it comes into contact with BB bearings, leaving customer looking like that famous pic of Fignon.

All/most the aliexpress cranksets have aluminium spindles (!) too, which no mainstream manufacturer does afaik

Many do now with oversize axles. Sram Dub are aluminium, or at least some are. And Rotor too.
But yeah

Forgot about Dub, don't see many of them where I am. Although 90nm+ breakout force to get them off makes me glad that's the case 🙃

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What are the best looking (round) chainrings for a Shimano 105 11s crankset?

Personally I like the absolute black combo with shimano cranks. Got some myself that are about to go on a 105 crankset

Loads of fsa, sram and rotor have an alloy axle. Difference being it's the right alloy, drawn, machined, surface finished and heat treated properly. Not some random alloy made into a round ish shape.

Another one for these.

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Difference being it's the right alloy, drawn, machined, surface finished and heat treated properly

And also 30mm. What seems like a small difference becomes huge when the torsional stiffness is proportional to the 4th power of diameter. 30mm aluminium alloy axles are fine, 24mm ones are a terrible idea. For a given load, the stress is reduced by about 60% using the larger axle. In the relevant region of the curve for 7075T6, that can easily be two orders of magnitude greater fatigue life.

Ah so someone tried to make a small diameter from an alloy, fail I guess!

Fsa steel 19mm is a weird one, weigh a tonne, flexible feeling and somehow also destroy bearings in no time, good square taper was so much better.

Yep, gotta be off with the fairies to imagine a 24mm ally BB is gonna fly. Pretty hair-raising thought, all those chumps riding around on a nasty con job...

gotta be off with the fairies to imagine a 24mm ally BB is gonna fly

KCNC have been making ISIS (that's 22mm isn't it?) BBs with a "Scandium" (i.e. refined 7000 series aluminium alloy) spindle for many years now. Probably no more deadly than square taper (16-17mm) titanium 🙂
https://www.kcncstore.com/kcnc-scandium-race-lite-bottom-bracket-ita-70-isis-promotion/

PS I tried buying from that store above last month and my bank flagged it as fraud based in Kenya.

I tried buying from that store

It wasn't a recommendation of either the shop or the product🙂 The address on the contact page resolves to a bric-à-brac store in a strip mall in Kansas. Now you've made me want this rather elegant old running hoist

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