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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!
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
+ 1 Redline single pinch. Or.. Hutch?
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Oooo, dirty...dirty readers cranks.......Phwooarrr 😀
What's the axle fitment ben?, square taper i guess?.
very unusual but almost reminiscent of the very early middleburn shape, how/where did the left one snap? - on the taper?.
st - looks like that Deore crank comes out pretty good!
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Currently loving these on my fancy pants bike.
What's the axle fitment ben?, square taper i guess?.very unusual but almost reminiscent of the very early middleburn shape, how/where did the left one snap? - on the taper?.
Square taper - but the square is parallel to the crank arm, so a replacement was tricky. Luckily an old Race Face fits, and Silverfish sent me one for free 😉
The left one, I think, peeled apart along the seam at the back.