Top tip, make sure that when the crank bolt releases for the first time your neck isn't over the top tube. Thankfully I had a bluff on as well as a high neck top but it does feel like I've been punched in the throat!
You live, and you learn. If you don't live you don't learn. Swallowing a slightly painful at the moment!Â
Dub cranks? If you know, you know.
Indeed 🙂 it still hurtsÂ
You don't get these problems with a nice cotter pin, you know!
You don't get these problems with a nice cotter pin, you know!
No but the nasty things used to pull through the cranks if you rode hard enough. Â
I have a massive breaker bar for removing dub cranks. Rarely do they go back on, if it's one of my bikes.Â
I have a massive breaker bar for removing dub cranks
I use an old brompton seatpost!!!
DrP
Also don't lean over the saddle with your ribs on it while pulling up on the allen key, especially not on two separate occasions. Â
Also don't lean over the saddle with your ribs on it while pulling up on the allen key, especially not on two separate occasions
+1 (in my case it was BB removal but tip is equally valid)
I smashed my face into the top tube of an old bike getting a square taper crank off. It had brake and rear mech top tube cable routing which cut two slices into my nose and resulted in a stroll to A&E for a bit of gluing me back together.
