i think my cranks are bent?
WHY?
i just got my £210 muni and bent the crank dropping off a cerbstone!!! how can people land these huge jumps and ride away undamaged???
bungle!
Cranks are very strange things.
I don’t think I’ve ever actually bent one doing a drop. I’ve bent two doing pedal grabs; one doing… erm… well, nothing, really, just random falling-off where the things just magically bend for no apparent reason; and one doing a gap that went wrong.
The “went wrong” bit is the key, I think… if you land properly they will survive large drops easily; get something wrong and they will bend like putty at nothing at all.
Of course, there could also be the occasional “dud” that is faulty to start with and is just waiting to bend. You may well have one of these.
What /is/ weird is when you have two unicycles and you can feel that one of them has slightly bent cranks, but you don’t know which… 
Phil
What makes you think they are bent? Do you mean twisted out so the pedals are not parrallel to the floor? Because this could be the spindles of the pedal bending if they are cheap Well-Gos or something. Or is the crank bent down so it’s not in line with the other one? Or both? Look down the lenth of on crank and if you have to turn the wheel to look down the length of the other, something is wrong! Check the pedals too.
What uni do you have? Are they splined cranks or cotterless ones? If they are definately bent, send em back. Equally it could be your hub, I have had a defective cotterless hub on which the axle twisted and both sides bent down after a 8" drop on the second day! Unicycle.com changed it and refunded the shipping no fuss tho. Phil is right, sometimes crap stuff gets sent out by mistake and will break first chance it gets.
muni
its a halo combat rim with contrat tyre (24X3) its got a nimbus 24 inch frame and a kh saddle the cranks are the bicycle euro ones on unicycle.com its described as a off road machine that will take a real hammering!
bungle
doesnt sound right to me!
I run that setup (Unicycle.Com hub and bicycle euros), and they do me fine, and no way am I a ‘soft’ rider.
I think it is almost time for me to change my cranks though:
Joe,
Lol Barry my friend dropped off a step and it buckled his wheel and I think it also bent a crank lol, Its the way some people distribute there weight on the unicycle.
Trev
Re: bent cranks?
On Sun, 9 May 2004 17:15:44 -0500, “phil” wrote:
>What /is/ weird is when you have two unicycles and you can feel that one
>of them has slightly bent cranks, but you don’t know which…
Yes, I recently switched unicycles with someone and said Hey your
pedals are bent. He never noticed that but he thought that MINE were
not straight.
Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
be sure to remove the saddle and simply sit on the seat post. this is far more comfortable - tennisgh22 on the comfort of Savage unis
Re: bent cranks?
On Mon, 10 May 2004 12:38:11 -0500, “BungleBanks” wrote:
>its a halo combat rim with contrat tyre (24X3) its got a nimbus 24 inch
>frame and a kh saddle the cranks are the bicycle euro ones on
>unicycle.com its described as a off road machine that will take a real
>hammering!
I do MUni on the same specs (with Suzue hub and 170 mm cranks). Has
served me well for 1.5 years. Now it’s about time for new cranks but I
think it’s mainly caused by a non-optimal crank mounting technique
(hammering them on).
So yes, you seem to have a faulty crank and I think it should be
replaced under warranty.
Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
be sure to remove the saddle and simply sit on the seat post. this is far more comfortable - tennisgh22 on the comfort of Savage unis