MarioM
Likes Dirt
Wait till you put them on and try them . So nice .
What did you do TO / WITH / FOR your bike today!
- Thread starter Minlak
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Hoping the bigger swept area (smaller holes) will give a little more bite and the thicker disc slightly better heat management.
Let see how they go with Shimano 4 pot callipers.
ozzybmx
taking a shit with my boobs out
May the glorious last for at least 2 more weeks
Bet you're running 170 or even 175 cranks to really tease the russian roulette gods!
I just priced a set of 5Dev cranks to replace my carbon jobbies on the ebike but the exchange is so fucked the cranks are $750AUS!! Guess I'll be paranoid for a while yet!
Asininedrivel
caviar connoisseur
Is it bad to say I thought they'd be more? That's comparable to most carbon stuff and not terrible for something made in the USA.
What about the Hope Evo cranks?
leitch
Feelin' a bit rrranty
$750 and ugly as shit, sign me up!
Asininedrivel
caviar connoisseur
I thought the same when I first saw them but in person they're.... an improvement.
Oddjob
Merry fucking Xmas to you assholes
$15k for an e-bike, what's another $750. What about Mirandas?
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Which motor on the e?
Shimano 5Dev in stock at MTB Direct
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yuley95
soft-arse Yuley is on the lifts again
Money train for parts has entered a dry period….something to do with spending $15k on an ebike!
Too many bent Miranda cranks on line to believe they aren’t made of cheese.
Brose (Levo). My Kenevo is no more and Spec replaced it with the full fat.Which motor on the e?
Shimano 5Dev in stock at MTB Direct
5DEV Shimano EP8 eCranks
New space-grade aluminum eCranks from 5 DEV deliver premium stiffness and strength in a lightweight package. Whether bombing chutes or dodging trees, these durable eCranks will challenge the most aggressive trail and enduro mountain bikers. Suitable for use on Shimano EP8 equipped E-Mountain...
Yep just looking at those now.
link1896
Mr Greenfield
There has to be plenty of praxis ally crank arms kicking about from those who have upgraded to full carbon. Sworks didn’t get carbon on the gen1 Levo.
Ask on the eMTB forum for ally praxis crank arms I reckon.
5Dev are an awesome bunch, aerospace dudes, main business is “5th axis” with over 100 machines in a San Diego factory, 5Dev is a side gig, clearly $399 USD cranks are competing in a high margin shop for machine time. My mate James with decades of 5 axis machine programming experience puts a 5Dev crank arm at less then 10 mins machine time on a 5 axis machine, 18usd a kg for plate 7075-T651.
It’s not the materials you’re paying for here.
SummitFever
Eats Squid
"Space grade aluminium" - I feel like I should know what that means but I've got NFI.
rockmoose
his flabber is totally gastered
NASA wrapped its most famous spacecraft in aluminum kitchen foil — a last-minute move that may have saved the mission
Engineers bought all of the kitchen-grade aluminum foil they could find at a supermarket to protect the Voyager probes from Jupiter's wrath.
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Praxis alloy is definitely made of cheese ime. I bent two sets of the alloy versions before going to carbon on my Kenevo.
The 5Dev cranks are fantastic but the exchange rate makes them unobtainable right now. I have a set on my Madonna bought some time ago for under $500 delivered so that memory is the price I want to pay
(5Dev are sensational for after sales support/warranty response too btw)
link1896
Mr Greenfield
Not 182mm Q factor atm on the bike?
ozzybmx
taking a shit with my boobs out
You won't really notice it at that width.
Years ago when I was nearly full time fatbike, the q factor was 220-230, I came off that bike after the 2015 Simpson race and hung the bike up.
Next thing I'm riding roadies at <150mm and a XC race bike around 166mm.
After 3 years on a fatbike I was having issues with my foot and knee as I was 'clawing' at the left pedal and crushing metatarsal bones, my pedalling style looking for 230mm width but only getting 150mm. That 40mm per side was a massive jump.
I still get that on a narrow q bike but with modern MTB's getting wider, I've found anything over 175mm works well. If I could pick an ideal q factor for myself on every bike, it would be around 185mm.
TIME pedals also help as they have some 'sideways slide' so I reckon they can vary depending in where you clip in or slide your foot by up to 10mm per side. If I'm out for a long pedal, I'll purposely wiggle my feet out to maximise the Q.