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Matt Vandart

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I Have owned both and its very close actually!

But I think tryall win. Purely because you can run a front freewheel setup on them whereas the middleburns are locked.. I really love both cranks! But at the moment im loving my tryalls more.

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Burns. They're still the lightest arms out, they're incredibly stiff and very, very strong, and I think they come with a lifetime warrenty?

Get a lightweight ring to go with them and you're laughing.

Although on a Mod I'd go with Try-All.

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If you've got a decent freehub set up, a King or a Pro 2, then i'd go for the Burns, i love mine, incredibly stiff, nice and light and awesome warranty and they're British! I run Middleburns on both of my bikes and have had them on nigh on every bike i've owned. Personally i think they look awesome too.

If you're going for a FFW set up then Try Alls obviously, what is the cost difference between the two?

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If you've got a decent freehub set up, a King or a Pro 2, then i'd go for the Burns, i love mine, incredibly stiff, nice and light and awesome warranty and they're British! I run Middleburns on both of my bikes and have had them on nigh on every bike i've owned. Personally i think they look awesome too.

If you're going for a FFW set up then Try Alls obviously, what is the cost difference between the two?

Nothing got both available to me, my bird is trying to swap her middleburns for my tryalls.

Still considering a chris king you see.

May hold that thought if screw on middleburns are in the pipeline!

Matt

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Same cranks and a spline mounted ENO freewheel would be the best cranks ever invented...

Absof**kinlootly, Why oh why the screw on freewheel shit.

Ever seen a high tourque hydraulic ratchet?

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We use these heads to undo big bolts with 2"+ threads.

12,000psi+ through aluminium splines about 1.5mm high and 3mm pitch on the reaction arm.

Don't try and tell me it wouldnt work.

Which brings me to another point.

Splined hubs (hope etc) WTFIT?

It's no wonder the sprockets dig in.

Micro spline is the way forward there.

Matt

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Absof**kinlootly, Why oh why the screw on freewheel shit.

Ever seen a high tourque hydraulic ratchet?

We use these heads to undo big bolts with 2"+ threads.

12,000psi+ through aluminium splines about 1.5mm high and 3mm pitch on the reaction arm.

Don't try and tell me it wouldnt work.

Which brings me to another point.

Splined hubs (hope etc) WTFIT?

It's no wonder the sprockets dig in.

Micro spline is the way forward there.

Matt

also chuffing expensive due to the tolerances involved?

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Here is my dilema.

Missus is trying to talk me into giving her my try all cranks and me having my old middleburns back (something tells me I'm getting stiffed here)

So I run 18/15 on my bike at the moment on a neon conquerer.

the chain stays are 380mm.

What I wanna do (hypothetically for now) is run a 16t on the front so what sprocket should I run on ze back to keep the gearing similar AND the chain length similar?

My head is to full of mince to work it out.

Matt

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Here is my dilema.

Missus is trying to talk me into giving her my try all cranks and me having my old middleburns back (something tells me I'm getting stiffed here)

So I run 18/15 on my bike at the moment on a neon conquerer.

the chain stays are 380mm.

What I wanna do (hypothetically for now) is run a 16t on the front so what sprocket should I run on ze back to keep the gearing similar AND the chain length similar?

My head is to full of mince to work it out.

Matt

It seems like it's one or the other: you get the ratio you want or the chain length you want (don't get why you care about chain length at all though). if you're going from an 18t to a 16t up front, then the rear would need to get correspondingly larger for the chain to remain the same length, so you'd end up with like a 16:17 ratio.

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Here is my dilema.

Missus is trying to talk me into giving her my try all cranks and me having my old middleburns back (something tells me I'm getting stiffed here)

So I run 18/15 on my bike at the moment on a neon conquerer.

the chain stays are 380mm.

What I wanna do (hypothetically for now) is run a 16t on the front so what sprocket should I run on ze back to keep the gearing similar AND the chain length similar?

My head is to full of mince to work it out.

Matt

With a 16t front, the ratios are kinda of in between if you run an 18.

18:16 is a 1:1.125 ratio.

16:14 is a 1:1.142 ratio.

18:15 is a 1:1.200 ratio.

16:13 is a 1:1.231 ratio.

I use 16:13, most people think it's too high but I had 16:14 and just couldn't ride it.

EDIT: Chain legnth will barely change, you might be able to get another link out of it, which is a good thing really.

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