crank question.

Inigo Montoya · Feb 26, 2009

scant":3h5xgnz9 said:
yeh, i'm well versed in bikepro as i've got the paper catalogue plus i'm the 1 who asked for the bikepro sticky in the FAQ section

scant":3h5xgnz9 said:
just wondering what the slight differences were. the arms look the same, so I guess must be purely the spider?

from what i read so far the only difference is the bolt that fixes the spider to the crank. in the following post
http://www.mtb-news.de/forum/showpost.p ... stcount=15
the poster states that the grafton cranks used a normal allen key screw and the topline/pbc cranks a ti bolt with rounded head.

sjofels · Feb 26, 2009

From what pictures i can find of the grafton cranks, i'd say it is with about 90% certainty a topline, the crank arms look exactly like tose of topline (spider looks more like a grafton or cooks bros, dont know if these are compatible)

Inigo Montoya · Feb 28, 2009

found the following on the mombat site:
http://mombat.org/Grafton.htm
http://mombat.org/Topline.htm
i conclude that the first grafton cranks produced by topline were called "speed sticks". they were produced in 1991. in 1992 grafton seems to have released a new crank design, the "joystix".
topline released their cranks in 1992.

Inigo Montoya · Feb 28, 2009

sjofels, could you make a photo of the backside of the drive-side crank?

sjofels · Mar 2, 2009

here ya go, the spider look a lot like the first grafton one, from what i can tell from the scans.

Inigo Montoya · Mar 2, 2009

thanks sjofels!
scant, could you add pics of your set?

sjofels · Mar 16, 2009

If anybody is interested i'd be willing to part with the crank, comes with all the parts shown on the previous page. Price will be reasonable (what i paid for it).
PM me.

crank question.

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