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Going to ride this 200 miles across the country, starting tomorrow, finishing Wednesday.
Though in the process of checking everything over for this ride i notice that somewhen in the last 3-6 15 min commutes to and from work, I had lost my crank arm fixing bolt and the crank arm was making its way to falling off the bike. I’m not mega surprised this happened as I put the cranks on a bit of a rush, didn’t clean the threads very well certainly, and must not have tightened it up properly either
I’ve checked it, the splines all seemed fine and undamaged, I’ve put a new fixing bolt on, cleaned, greased/loctite’d relevant threads, and tightened it all up, hopefully properly this time. It seems fine after a small ride around but i doubt that’s gonna tell me anything regarding the likelihood of this working loose again after 30 miles 🤪
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