Current Projects chat and miscellany

It's not really that I don't like track cranks, I just love UltraTorque, and the Mirage and Veloce ones are very cheap, especially now that they are discontinued and shops are clearing stock. Complete chainset including BB, Goldtec ring and the machine work comes to about £120, against around £250 for Record, DuraAce or SG75. Also, have you actually ridden external bearing cranks? The massive increase in stiffness over square taper might not actually make you faster, but it certainly feels like it should. Finally, I now have UltraTorque on all 5 of the bikes which get any serious use, so I get a consistent Q-Factor right across the fleet, which is nice.

+1. ExBB on all my bikes. Even got rid of the old sq taper on my runaround:
£32 - http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=29216

Had an old Hollowtech2 BB lying around and also had a use for the rings that came with it. Bargain.