I was out riding the other night and I went to pedal grab onto a stack of about
6 palettes. I went to hop, I compressed my legs and snapped the tire when my
left crank just broke straight in half. Has anyone else had their lascos break
in such a strange manner, not just the incident and scenario, but where they
busted?
Thanks,
-Dylan
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pictures can be found here:
<http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/DylanTrials?&page=3#>
looks like blunt force trama…
hey dylan, looks like you’ll be throwing your lascos in the bin.good riddance to bad rubbish.
at least you snapped them before they could destroy your hub.
bycycle euros are good coterless crank, you’ll bend them eventualy, but hopefully they’ll be some cheaper splined hubs on the market by then.
how long did your lascos last you?
Oh my god. Dylan has (had) the exact same pedals and cranks I have. You might have been able to trick me into believing you had broken my stuff.
Now that image is going to haunt me…
those things look wafer thin,no wonder it broke like that.in leows picture,thats a Coker right?unbelivable,why is this product still being sold?
I broke some Lascos like that once. In my case my left crank snapped just as I landed a fairly large gap. I found it strange that it snapped from that, since it had already taken quite a few 4ft drops. Lascos can work for MUni, if your on a tight budget, and you don’t hop at all, but otherwise there pretty much a waste of time.
Ben
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>hey dylan, looks like you’ll be throwing your lascos in the bin.good
>riddance to bad rubbish.
>at least you snapped them before they could destroy your hub.
>bycycle euros are good coterless crank, you’ll bend them eventualy, but
>hopefully they’ll be some cheaper splined hubs on the market by then.
>
>how long did your lascos last you?
Hey Ewan,
These are my 4th pair of cranks on this uni, 2 pairs have been lascos, one pair
was cheap steel ones, and an other pair was some cut-down MTB cranks…
This pair of lascos lasted me close to a month, compared to my first pair which
lasted me 3 days. I was really trying to make this second pair last a little
longer (I didn’t do any drop over 1.5 feet, although I can hop higher than
that).
125mm Bicycle Euro Cranks are on the way. Thanx Roger!
-Dylan
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>
>Oh my god. Dylan has (had) the exact same pedals and cranks I have.
>You might have been able to trick me into believing you had broken my
>stuff.
did (do) you have a norco trials uni?
-Dylan
Those things look like my neck.
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>Those things look like my neck.
ouch.
I Love you
Hey hunni.
yeah it sucked eh?? at least you managed to find some cranks that were lost in ur mess…i mean wonderful room (j/k)
i love you!!
i hope u get ur MUni soon!! and i order my frame and well…everything else then we can FINALY go riding together!!
Anyway its midnight and ur not online…yet someone is and there not answering me…BAH! 
I’ll phone you tomorow, I Love you!!
yours Lauren. “unilor” )–(x)
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>These are my 4th pair of cranks on this uni, 2 >pairs have been lascos, one pair
>was cheap steel ones, and an other pair was some >cut-down MTB cranks…
how did the cut down mtb cranks work out?
how exactly did you modify them?
sounds like neat idea, were they any good?
>This pair of lascos lasted me close to a month, >compared to my first pair which
>lasted me 3 days. I was really trying to make >this second pair last a little
>longer (I didn’t do any drop over 1.5 feet, >although I can hop higher than
>that).
i’ve mannaged to make a set of cheapo steel cranks last about a month, by landing softly and not doing insane dropoffs, every so often i get the urge to do a gap or two and they get a little bit more bent.
the best thing about using cheapo cranks that won;t take a drop is that my wheel walking has improved and so have my uni spins.
>125mm Bicycle Euro Cranks are on the way. Thanx >Roger!
i started out using b.e 125s but after i bent my first set i moved to 150s, i had a spare steel set lying arround and stuck them on to keep me going, and i found that i muchh prefered them, more torque on uphills, more stable to land drops.
and unfortunatly more likeley to bend
so after a couple of sets of 150s i decided to stay out of the pub for a month and buy a profile setup. i figured that i was closeto breaking my hub and that if i broke a couple of hubs then it’d cost me about the same as a couple of suzue hubs and wheel building.
i was going to get the onza hub (which will be cheaper)but it won’t be available for ages.
i should get my wheel back on wednesday, and then i can start doing some daft dropoffs without worrying about the uni dying on me.
ewan.
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>how did the cut down mtb cranks work out?
>how exactly did you modify them?
>sounds like neat idea, were they any good?
I found a pair of 170mm MTB cranks, I had them cut down to about 135mm and then
I had the pedal holes re-drilled and re-tapped. They worked okay for a while,
but eventually the four-wall taper got rounded out.
Dylan
