Double chainring FSA

I'm probably crazy, but I'm going from a triple
to a double. My store just got FSA team carbon
cranks for good price. Does anyone know why they
are being discounted?

tnx
bill

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William O'Hara

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:32:35 -0600, "William O'Hara"
wrote:

I'm probably crazy, but I'm going from a triple
to a double. My store just got FSA team carbon
cranks for good price. Does anyone know why they
are being discounted?


Which PCD? Compacts are selling like hot cakes, so I'd expect 130 PCD
cranks to be marked down

Kinky Cowboy*

*Batteries not included
May contain traces of nuts
Your milage may vary

William O'Hara wrote:
I'm probably crazy, but I'm going from a triple
to a double. My store just got FSA team carbon
cranks for good price. Does anyone know why they
are being discounted?


My coworker's carbon aluminum joint failed in his 2-piece carbon FSA
crankset. Not sure what model it was.

--
Phil, Squid-in-Training

Kinky Cowboy wrote in
:

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:32:35 -0600, "William O'Hara"
wrote:

I'm probably crazy, but I'm going from a triple
to a double. My store just got FSA team carbon
cranks for good price. Does anyone know why they
are being discounted?


Which PCD? Compacts are selling like hot cakes, so I'd expect 130 PCD
cranks to be marked down

He has compacts and regular on sale.

I'm not sure of the model #.
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William O'Hara

William O'Hara wrote:
I'm probably crazy, but I'm going from a triple
to a double. My store just got FSA team carbon
cranks for good price. Does anyone know why they
are being discounted?

Isis is on the way out...

Dan Connelly wrote:
Ron Ruff wrote:
William O'Hara wrote:

I'm probably crazy, but I'm going from a triple
to a double. My store just got FSA team carbon
cranks for good price. Does anyone know why they
are being discounted?


Isis is on the way out...


http://www.sheldonbrown.com/fsabb.html

That's a couple years old.

Phil, Squid-in-Training wrote:
William O'Hara wrote:
I'm probably crazy, but I'm going from a triple
to a double. My store just got FSA team carbon
cranks for good price. Does anyone know why they
are being discounted?


My coworker's carbon aluminum joint failed in his 2-piece carbon FSA
crankset. Not sure what model it was.


I bent a FSA Energy crankset...

I'm probably crazy, but I'm going from a triple
to a double. My store just got FSA team carbon
cranks for good price. Does anyone know why they
are being discounted?


Isis is on the way out...


http://www.sheldonbrown.com/fsabb.html

I'm not so willing to indict either a company's product, or the ISIS bottom
bracket in general, on the basis of a single observed failure. One could
just as easily claim that FSA & ISIS are both exceptional products because
I've had no problems whatsoever with what's on my own bike.

Having said that, I'll agree that the newer crank designs with the combined
oversized spindle/right-side crank and external bearings make a lot of
sense.

--Mike Jacoubowsky
Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReaction.com
Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 05:09:54 GMT, "Mike Jacoubowsky"
wrote:

I'm not so willing to indict either a company's product, or the ISIS bottom
bracket in general, on the basis of a single observed failure. One could
just as easily claim that FSA & ISIS are both exceptional products because
I've had no problems whatsoever with what's on my own bike.

Of course, Sheldon didn't indict the Isis system, but merely this
particular type of FSA BB, for reasons that include the single observed
failure but more importantly the design flaw that caused it.

Having said that, I'll agree that the newer crank designs with the combined
oversized spindle/right-side crank and external bearings make a lot of
sense.

One step further and we'll be riding single-piece Ashtabula cranks.

Jasper

William O'Hara wrote:

I'm probably crazy, but I'm going from a triple
to a double.

Yep, sounds crazy to me...

My store just got FSA team carbon
cranks for good price. Does anyone know why they
are being discounted?

The law of supply and demand?

Ron Ruff wrote:

Isis is on the way out...

It is? Sure doesn't look that way to me!

Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/fsabb.html

I'm not so willing to indict either a company's product, or the ISIS
bottom bracket in general, on the basis of a single observed failure.
One could just as easily claim that FSA & ISIS are both exceptional
products because I've had no problems whatsoever with what's on my
own bike.

Since I've been invoked on this topic, I'll risk the netiquette
violation of a "me too" post:

I'm in complete agreement with Mike on this, and have no beef whatever
with the ISIS system, nor with FSA products in general.

Having said that, I'll agree that the newer crank designs with the
combined oversized spindle/right-side crank and external bearings
make a lot of sense.

Yes, this does make a lot of sense for most folks. The wide
interchangeability of bottom bracket parts among different brands and
models is a particularly nice feature, though, as an old-time bike
hacker, I kinda miss the ability to play games with non-standard
chainlines. For most people, however, that's a _good_ thing, 'cause it
makes errors less likely.

Sheldon "Neo Grouch?" Brown
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