Oh my gerd, I miscalculated and didn't realize that Carmina cranks are actually more like $450+ with rings.. yikes. Looks like I'll have to practice the art of bike finery restraint and stick with the workman-like and perfectly adequate Sugino XD-2...
On Friday, October 25, 2013 1:07:21 PM UTC-4, Mike On A Bike wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestions, Garth! The DaVincis look really nice and I'd > never heard of them, but I think if I'm going to shell out the dough for a > new crankset, I'd want to step it all the way up to 185. I bet 5 mm's > difference wouldn't make much of a difference at all, but 185's look good > to me with the thinking that I should be riding a longer crank than the 5'8 > - 6'0 person that 175's are probably best fitted for. > > How did you determine what length BB spindle to use for your Bombadil with > the Carmina? This is the part that scares me-- shelling out $300+ for a new > crank and then hitting the chainstays! > > On Friday, October 25, 2013 12:58:17 PM UTC-4, Garth wrote: >> >> >> I forget about this : >> http://www.davincitandems.com/comp.html >> > -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
