Sugino Messenger or Miche

...running 48/16 not 44/16 anyone running 48/16? could i go bigger? its a pricey spend to be playing around, not as easy as just buying rear cogs to try different gears if you get my drift.

Im torn between keeping a sugino crankset or going with a miche, if so ill change to a miche crankset as the pcd on a 48 seems to be 140 from the research ive done. Do they ride well? whats the quality like?

I recon you need to double check / do a bit more research.

I'm pretty sure the Miche cranks will have a 144bcd like most track cranks. You can buy easily pretty much any size chainring going up into the +50t's. rear cogs are a cheaper way to adjust your ratios. DA will go down to 13t, so just get something sensible based on what ratios you want.

In terms of quality I'd say just work out your budget and get what you want. I've got the old Miche track cranks on my beater with the chainring bolts that commonly strip in the crank, mine has been fine. I also used to have a messenger, and other than being a road crank some how branded as a Track crank it was also fine. I think most modern cranks are going to be sufficient.

If I was looking for a crank for a street fixed, I'd probably just look for a good deal on a set of road cranks with external bearings and then switch the chain ring. If you're going to be riding track and racing it may be more useful to go for a standard 144bcd crank just because its what everyone else would have, in case you needed a spare I guess.

Here's some more info http://www.velodromeshop.net/index.php?p=page&page_id=faqtech-gear

... and there's also a track section of the forum which would have more info.