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Achievement unlocked: break a crankset
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this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2023
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I've somehow managed to break several cranksets, but they were mostly cheap ass Costco/Walmart bikes I had had a kid.
For one of them I literally just sheared through the aluminum crank arm. It was made of cheap aluminum I guess, and the square bracket tore through until it was basically a round hole with bits of aluminum sticking out.
The other was one of those cheap ones where the crank arm and spindle are just a single bar of steel. This one mostly destroyed the bottom bracket, as my frame basically started leaking BB's and grease. But somewhere in there the axle had snapped as well.
The last one was an ISIS bottom bracket that, like the square bracket above, managed to shear through an aluminum crank arm.
I don't know how I managed all of that, I'm not even that strong or heavy of a rider
That's pretty impressive. Lots of bad luck? Or just crappy quality control?
I'm a fairly average size, but I do a lot of pretty serious gravel biking, as well as riding in all conditions thanks to using the same bike for almost all of my transportation. And honestly, running down the list of changes I've made to this bike since I got it in 2020, most of the stock parts that came with it have failed and had to be replaced, to the point that I'm on first-name terms with everyone at my shop and they've started comping me labor when I go in for replacement parts.