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Echo 6061 Vs Muscleman


Muel

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Just wondering if anyone has used these cranks and which you think is best, my muscleman's are knackered so its either of these two.

By all means suggest some different ones but I can't spend more than around £50! :D

Echos: http://www.tartybikes.co.uk/product.php?id=156

Musclemans: http://supercycles.co.uk/site_details.asp?ProductID=381

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I would go for echo, onza are rubbish there heavy and i ripped the thread out of both crank arms with an extractor the first time i tried to take them off.

Mr ? (Y)

i have echo and the thread round off to hold sprocket on! onza are poo but what happened to my echo's may make you think twice about gettin echo's......

hope this helped.

graham

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get the echos mate, aslong as you fit it altogether properly i.e putitng freehweel on correctly and not cross threadin it then they will be alright.

the echos are lighter stiffer nad in general much better quality than the onza ones

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the only reason why the threads are knackering is because you aren't using the tools correctly!

to remove a crank- every thread on the crank much be filled by the crank puller

when fitting any thread make sure its straight as not to damage the thread by cross threading.

if you have problems fitting/removing things then get someone more technically minded to help/do it for you.

if you cant do that the local bike shop will surely fit/remove things for you, at a cost!

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Thanks for that advice, but the bike is second hand. I have got a crank puller and had to use it to get my right hand crank arm off when my dad was going to weld my freewheel for me. worked like a treet apart from the crank went on much further and as a result jammed against the BB shell. It needs a new BB anyway so i ran it grinding away and it has ground a lod of the shell off. I can still get the BB out htough luckily... :(

Anyway the thread is fine on them its just the taper that is knackered. Thanks for the advice though, its good that you tried to help.

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Never rode the Musclemans but Echo 6061's are totally crap. The taper should last you about a month. It's just an awful material, I had some Zoo CNC 05 cranks which lasted me about 5 weeks 3 weeks of on and off riding, then I had to modify the taper because I could take the cranks off without any tools.

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Thanks for telling me that, after I've bought them.

They certainly look better than my musclemans, which my mate also has, and haven't failed yet, as long as you keep them really tight most cranks should be fine according to biketrial.com.

At my level i could be riding XC cranks anyway... :(

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