[Closed] Crankporn!

eyebleach
I prefer the old sweetwings aswell.....

The first one is so ugly I have no hope of attaining an erection for at least twenty minutes 🙁

I thought they'd said they were going to put a 'cover' on them. The EE-Cycleworks ones look good! Can't beat Claviculas for crank porn though.

Is the first one being released on April 1st?

If that's porn then it must be some sort of electro-latex fetish porn.

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Classy crank porn

There are cranks other than RS7s????

Rachel

If that's porn then it must be some sort of electro-latex fetish porn.

There are other kinds of porn? Who knew?

allthegear - Member

There are cranks other than RS7s????

Rachel

Yes there is RS8 X-Type 😆

Those first ones are EPIC!!!

😯 😯

Perfer the SI SL:

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the cannondale gets my vote too (as does the classic campagnolo chainset 🙂

i really want to have a go at making some cranks. i think probably white industries style square ish crank arms, but 104mm so i can fit a renthal etc.

If that's meant to be crank porn then my old chap doesn't seem to understand?, hang on....let me show him the picture again............Nope.....no response whatsoever, not even when i slap him in anger...he just retreats into his shell........show him this however [img] [/img]
....and he froths at the mouth like a rabid dog.

Sorry, Middledirge are just shite.

These is the daddies:

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That canondale thing looks amazing

Perfer the SI SL:

I like the look f them but surely from an engineering perspective the DA9000 (or any shimano) is far better, those cannondales must flex the arm, then the axle, then the spider, rather than attaching the spider to the crank halfway up the arm?

These are the real deal

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Classic cranks you say? Oh do please keep up there is only one 8)

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Ffffwwwhhhoooaaaarrrrrr!!!!!

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also from the shiny era, the original aero brake.

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My posh roadie rocks a 1pc!

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Having trouble getting it up...

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Or..

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CLOSE THREAD
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Soma funk I want that setup

Ahhhhhhhh! Redline Flights, just had a trouser moment.

At the risk of upsetting Al, here's a shiny pic,
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All running on a Hope Ceramic BB.

Probably not the lightest, nor the stiffest but i'm not the best rider either so they do me fine, i've ran middleburn cranks since 1993 on my bikes, this is my third set - the other two are square taper and still doing service including the original set that have over over 70,000miles on them and the other set used exclusively for ss, with the lifetime guarantee i guess they'll outlast me, another 45 odd years to go then 🙂

I rather like the look of this setup...

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And I love Middleburns as well, particularly with their sweet Uno setup!

Somafunk, I love the way you've taken 2 components that individually look lovely, and combined them into a tart's handbag. That's not just lacking taste, it's [i]anti-taste.[/i]

Yep...On their own they are stunning, put them together and they're disgustingly brash n' tacky looking yet at the same time rather alluring, a bit like Geri Halliwel, you may not boast about it down the pub but you would. Was it better before i went tacky?

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How about these on my ss roadie then?, polished Dura-Ace 7700 cranks on my 1994 Marin Indian Fire Trail, The frame is polished to within an inch of it's life of course and totally unsuitable for salty roads, or fingerprints.

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I know....i have far too much time on my hands..........

Those Look cranks are nice and liking the classic look of the Pista cranks.

I loved my old Caramba's.
Not particularly light or stiff or even strong as they cracked but I kept them anyway.
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edit-not mine, just a pic I found online, mine have got a red spider, red outer & inner ring & green middle ring! 8)

I always liked the look of these... Worked well too. (pedals are rubbish though)
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I had some Middleburn RS2s in about '94 with red/green/red rings and a red spider.
Thankfully no pics survive, neither did the cranks.

Ooh, I've had a "gentlemans trouser moment". I'll rest up for a while.

No offence taken somafunk, I mean they're just a polished version of these?:

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390g for the arms sounds light until you add the BB and rings, so for $1100 the Gravitas ones just don't quite do it for me!

RS7/8s are OK but I do like these (Gopping colours are mandatory)

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Mmmmm Cook's Bros retro goodness...

One for the Middleburn fans. A complete British crankset, Middleburn on Middleburn, secured by X-Lite, spinning on Royce. There is nothing better. And its all MINE!! Muhwahwahwah!

🙂

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This makes me slightly tumescent... Hollow chainrings, innit.

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Gosh I lusted after them Purple Cook Bros Cranks back in the day.

DA9000 looks teh awsums in a pure beauty of functionality sort of way!

Middleburn have never done it for me.

Cook Bros were the dogs danglies back in the day, they still look the bollox t'day, i used to have a purple set but the crank taper developed a crack and Cook Bros wouldn't warranty them so that's why i took a strop and bought my first set of middleburns - one of the better decisions i have made in my life.

I'd like a set of Cook Bros for the Pace RC200 frame we have in the workshop, and a set of the original Pace rigid forks, build it up into a lightweight boneshaking singlespeed and dig out the day glo lycra and hit the trails we rode on 20 yrs ago....then realise it was a very bad idea and jump on the hummer wi 140mm of travel instead 🙂

The thread isn't complete without some morati ti cranks and some gorgeous graftons please!

Morati
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Grafton
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And, how about...

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First to ID them gets, well nothing really, but the admiration of the crank-fetishists among us!

Such a shame the morati ones generally crack.

Onza HO's Flashy...what do I win?

I hear they flexed 😐

Even the Cook Bros fans have got it wrong... these are the filf you're after. Aptly named the F Series

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I like Flashy's first ones too.

Aptly named the F Series

F for FWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAR!
😉

This is like readers wives, only the reader is brad pitt. Hubba.

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After wrecking the splines in some 950 XTRs and always wanting Bullseyes as a kid I put Profiles on my Chameleon BITD, heavy and ott but so stiff, totally bombproof.
These look like a better bet - Groovy Cycles Hot Rods. Pricey tho, and the permanent 'wonky pedal axle' feel of Profiles put me off welded cranks, they're rarely 100% straight.

Were the classic Cook Bros as flexy as they look?

how come Crank Bros don't make cranks?

sure those middle ones are grafton flashy?
look like topline no ?

Yep, polished Speed Stix. You may have been thinking of Joy Stix
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Were the classic Cook Bros as flexy as they look?

Could you tell on an 80s ti frame?

brakes - Member
how come Crank Bros don't make cranks?

they tried to, I don't think they worked. Looked good though!

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stAn-Bad Brains MBC wins for me with those purple cook bros things on a yellow frame!

looks like the bastard child of a magic motorcycle and a rotor cranks

the same guy is responsible for the Hollowgram was also the original guy behind the middleburn rs series

Morati 😯 WOW.

Redline flights!... ol school beautys!

Can my cranks be added!

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^ Hell yes, but not the red bolts )

Wtd: a nice single ring crankset for my SS, year round (polish won't last), light is good, what to choose?

The ironing of this Crank Bros post:

they tried to, I don't think they worked. Looked good though!

That minor point's never stopped them from selling anything else

BITD flash bikes in MBUK either had Crank Bros, Bullseye or these:

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But not black as I'll heel scuff them do death.

I rather like these - actually, I'd like these (if I could find a Sugino dealer in the UK) ...

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Oh my, I had some of the cook bros f series, polished loveliness. They ran on a Royce ti bb and had pace rings. I wish I still had them they were gorgeous, stiff and slender. What more can ou want?

This does it for me!! One day maybe! TI carbon just lush!!

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(Thank you Photo Box for hosting!)

I've got Cook bros. E cranks that are different to every pair shown on retrobike. Those guys would wet themselves as the 'cook bros. racing' laser etching is not 7 inches long down the face but about 1 inch discretely down the back of each arm near the pedal threads.

I was told they were prototypes when I was looking to buy cranks.. and bought them over the phone without seeing them! Still got them in the shed.

Also, the Redline 401's are the nicest cranks on this thread.

There are cranks other than RS7s????

Rachel

This lady has taste.

I'd also go with the redlines, nice and shiny.

I really must photograph my Heavy Industries cranks - welded out of titanium in Russia about 15 years ago, there's absolutely no design or aesthetics in them at all, they're pure function.

Lovely.

Apart from the left one, which snapped.

they're pure function.

Lovely.

Apart from the left one, which snapped.

😆

Come on then, it's useless without pics!

It's dark outside 😉

It's on my Tinbred in the shed, I'll try to remember tomorrow.

It was a lovely bloke from Leningrad - he made frames and stuff from off-cuts he nicked from the local submarine works or something. Half of the stuff I imported from him snapped immediately, the rest lasts for ever. His welding was a bit inconsistent...

C'mon ben?, you scared of the dark or something? - you can't possibly tease us wi such a tale of stolen russian submarine Titanium being made into cranks then make us wait?....we live in an age of instant gratification and if we can't find it on google within the first page of returned searches then it blatantly does not exist and is wiped from our subconsious, and you expect us to wait till later today?.....jeez!.....that's impossible.

😉

Okay, here you go:

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Dirty Reader's Cranks.

Phwooooar, etc.

Sweet! What does the inside look like? I presume the weld is there?

Yes, it's two plates - the front is curved, the back is just a flat plate welded all around. Then crank and pedal inserts welded in and the spider welded on.

I'm thinking of trying this with some Deores I have
http://www.velosolo.co.uk/jjcrank.html
not a new idea but nice all the same.