One length to rule them all

Somewhat related. I picked up some 75mm cranks the other day. I’d been curious and was also ordering other things. As I have a couple of unis with cotterless cranks, I decided to go cheap. Being cotterless, steel cranks they cost almost nothing (€8.32/£7.24/:us:$9.97/:australia:$12.86/:norway:83.42kr).

Let’s just say I won’t be making these my “one length to rule them all” :wink: but they worked ok on a 24" with a tyre at fairly high pressure. I doubt they are much of an improvement over the 89s I have generally run this unicycle with (when using it for road usage) but they were usable and not a massive slow down either. I have a 36" with a cotterless hub as well, so I perhaps I will try them on that, just for the fun of it. I also have a 54" wheeled penny farthing that has a cotterless hub but to be honest I wonder if I could even turn the wheel with such short cranks.

Here they are held up against my 36er which is currently mounted with dual hole 125/150 cranks

And mounted on my 24

Here is my test ride

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