I wouldn’t necessarily say it was extra-adventurous considering the following rides mentioned weren’t exactly adventurous to begin with but twice (correction: thrice!) I’ve had cranks work themselves loose from bottom bracket spindles.. First was on a shakedown ride after some parts swapping along a frequent 6-ish mile loop in a local park and MUP system and I simply neglected to fully torque the bolts on the square taper cranks and was too eager to get some miles in. NDS came loose about halfway and forgot my mini hex wrenches which I usually keep in a small tool kit. Tried to tighten with an appropriately shaped rock but couldn’t get enough leverage no matter how I tried. Return trip was essentially a one legged effort and fortunately on relatively flat terrain. 2nd time was a cottered crank where the nut on the old cotter worked itself loose on a Raleigh Sports. This was in the early half of a planned summer leisure ride to get some dinner. The nut was never to be seen again and we doubled back to load the bikes in the car and drive instead.
More recently I did a square taper conversion of a Raleigh frame using Raleigh cups and Italian spec square taper spindle. Used NDS road crank appeared to get too close to the adjustable cup after a recent retorque and catch the flats to cause the cup to loosen and begin to push the crank off the spindle. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
