So, they've opened a new pump track closeish to home, and being an amazingly cool dad who is down wi' the kids I took my DJ / pump track bike there for a spin.
Cased the crap out of one of the gaps. It turns out Shimano deore crank splines are no match 15 stone of unskilled biffer and a hard landing.
So I need some new cranks.
Been reading up about it and a lot of people recommended BMX 3 piece cromo cranks as they're generally a lot stronger.
However, it does look a bit of a faff and more expensive to set up. Also more risk of me buying the wrong parts and being without the bike for longer.
E.g. id have to find a BB that fits a BMX spindle (which are rare, it seems) plus also I'd need a larger than usual BMX chainring.Â
So might be better/stronger, but also likely to be a lot of faff.
Alternatively I could get some nice strong MTB style DH cranks - truvative descendent can be had cheap and they look sturdy.
A lot less faff, but probably ultimately not as strong.
What would STW do?
Think I'm leaning towards the MTB DH cranks for simplicity's sake.
I'm not bothered about weight by the way, but don't want to spend a fortune as it's supposed to be a cheap bike for messing about on occasionally.
