dude its a crank how many shapes can you have?Very reminiscent of some other gold blinginess . . .
I think that was my point . . . .dude its a crank how many shapes can you have?
haha my bad, Im so use to people saying "oh man it looks like a sunday" crap.I think that was my point . . . .
Good eye-it does look that way, but it's a bit harder to tell with the oversized spindle... But it would make sense- aren't these guys making a stepped freehub body for a smaller rear sprocket as well? I'd be stoked to be able to run a 30t up front as a 1x10 set up!looks smaller then 104bcd
Didn't these have a back plate bolted on so they were "hollow"? I remember that crazy mono tube bmx frame they came out with, and Dave Young testing it by catching his rear peg on a street sign at about eight feet up, man that was gnarly!Jad Cranks had these on 20" bikes and a few MTB's sick machine work.
The version I had had big holes drilled in the back. They ere like 8mm or maybe even 10mm in size and about 3 across.Didn't these have a back plate bolted on so they were "hollow"? I remember that crazy mono tube bmx frame they came out with, and Dave Young testing it by catching his rear peg on a street sign at about eight feet up, man that was gnarly!
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Technically, yes, billet is cast. But what people are calling 'billet' that they are machining pieces from are probably most often extrusions.P.S. Is a billet of aluminum made by pouring liquid into a mold (casting)?
By that definition, then all aluminum is cast at some point in it's life cycle.Technically, yes, billet is cast. But what people are calling 'billet' that they are machining pieces from are probably most often extrusions.
Oh yeah, I forgot that billets always have marks on the end, looking like they were cut from an extrusion. Wouldn't that extruding process have the same beneficial effect on grain alignment that forging has? In either the case of CNC'd from billet (Kooka, Cook Brothers) or CNC'd from a forging (Race Face & every new crank), you're still putting a machined finish on a chunk of aluminum that was squeezed. Is a forged/CNC'd crank really stronger or was that just RaceFace marketing?Technically, yes, billet is cast. But what people are calling 'billet' that they are machining pieces from are probably most often extrusions.
I bet you are correct here...Because like you said a 30t won't work, super compact drivetrains are sick...I am all for this.Looks like a 30t chainring in those pictures, and a 30t wont fit on 104 BCD so its definitely a smaller BCD, probably to work well with their 9-(whatever?) cassette/freehub body. Also my face when i saw the cranks.