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 Post subject: Identify cranks
PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:30 pm 
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Heya everyone...

Anyone know what cranks these are? Me thinks they would be Grafton Joy Stix, but I'm not sure.

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I'm thinking of getting them redone in blue or black and mounting these on my KLEIN Rascal. In the KLEIN manual only Grafton Joy Stix are mentioned to work with a 121mm x 13 BB spindle.

Any ideas? Or does just about any Grafton crank work with a 121mm BB spindle?

Cheers and thanx for tha helpin'

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Grafton Joystix?
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deffo grafton. look like the 1s firstflightbikes were selling?
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deffo grafton. look like the 1s firstflightbikes were selling?
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"Q factor" :lol:

run em wide, john wayne style ;)
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scant wrote:
deffo grafton. look like the 1s firstflightbikes were selling?


Indeed they are... I am in doubt if either these or the good old XT M730 chainset would look nice on my KLEIN.

Only thing is: I wanna ride my KLEIN when it's finished (in about 2 years if it keeps going this way, been outbid on XT thumbies 3 times in the past 2 weeks. Everytime by about 56 cents or a euro!!). And from what I understand those Graftons tend to break sooner than the bomb-proof M730's???
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yup, graftons crack. i've broken a set, i think jez is selling a semi broken pair as well. xt go on forever :)
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scant wrote:
yup, graftons crack. i've broken a set, i think jez is selling a semi broken pair as well. xt go on forever :)


So I guess I'd be better off using XT with my fat arse :-D (Well OK, just over 160lbs)...
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i would check the top of the left hand crank very carefully where the anodizing is missing...i had a cracked set that had a micro crack all the way round the crank exactly there.
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