Just as an FYI to all, I snapped my drive side crank arm in half off a pretty innocuous 3ft drop. Thankfully just landed butt on the seat and wondered what had broke. Took about 5 mins to find my pedal off in the bush.
Snapped about 1/3 of the way down right across one of the 'brace ridges' (for my lack of better terminology) on the backside of crank arm
RF is providing a warranty (although that's 2 months away apparently). So I don't know if that suggests they're just doing the right thing by me or there's an actual problem with the way some of the cranks were produced.
To me a crank is a crank - I really can't feel the difference. I'm not sure I'm sold on any of the cranks where you need such extreme force when installing. Why aren't they all Shimano where those 2 pint bolts seem to accomplish exactly the same outcome without the need to put 60nm of force into an 8mm crank bolt? What am I not understanding?
To me Shimano seems to be the way to go.
March 22, 2022, 8:22 p.m. - canterbury
Just as an FYI to all, I snapped my drive side crank arm in half off a pretty innocuous 3ft drop. Thankfully just landed butt on the seat and wondered what had broke. Took about 5 mins to find my pedal off in the bush. Snapped about 1/3 of the way down right across one of the 'brace ridges' (for my lack of better terminology) on the backside of crank arm RF is providing a warranty (although that's 2 months away apparently). So I don't know if that suggests they're just doing the right thing by me or there's an actual problem with the way some of the cranks were produced. To me a crank is a crank - I really can't feel the difference. I'm not sure I'm sold on any of the cranks where you need such extreme force when installing. Why aren't they all Shimano where those 2 pint bolts seem to accomplish exactly the same outcome without the need to put 60nm of force into an 8mm crank bolt? What am I not understanding? To me Shimano seems to be the way to go.