I very briefly flirted with bringing up cottered cranks, then fell into a flashback of beating on cotter pins with rocks as a child, removing cotter pins and shimming them with little slivers of broken feeler gauges because it was a weekend and the bike shop was closed and there were skids to be skidded, stripping out the nuts on cotter pins while trying to tighten them just... that... last... bit... That pedal-thunk-pedal-thunk dead spot as a crank with a buggered cotter comes through the top or bottom of the stroke, yeah. You're right. There were far worse things things than square taper...
Feb. 25, 2022, 9 a.m. - Mike Ferrentino
I very briefly flirted with bringing up cottered cranks, then fell into a flashback of beating on cotter pins with rocks as a child, removing cotter pins and shimming them with little slivers of broken feeler gauges because it was a weekend and the bike shop was closed and there were skids to be skidded, stripping out the nuts on cotter pins while trying to tighten them just... that... last... bit... That pedal-thunk-pedal-thunk dead spot as a crank with a buggered cotter comes through the top or bottom of the stroke, yeah. You're right. There were far worse things things than square taper...