Nick Payne
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 2626
Location: Canberra, Australia11/22/14 6:14 PM |
Middleburn cranks
I bought a pair of these for one of my touring bikes, and have been quite favorably impressed. They're made in the UK, are available in multiple lengths, and use a separate spider that bolts to the back of the RH crankarm. You can get four- or five-arm spiders for most bolt circles (94, 104, 110, 130), or you can use (as I have on this crank) their own chainrings, where the small chainring acts as the spider and the large chainring mounts to it. And in spite of being quite light - I weighed these at 558g including the 42t and 29t chainrings - they're pretty stiff: I don't see any wander of the chainrings at all when riding out of the saddle.
These are Middleburn RS7 cranks, and when mounted on a Phil Wood 103mm square taper BB, give me a pretty perfect 45mm chainline for the 135mm OLD rear hub on the tourer.
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