Re: [RBW] Re: Anyone using SunXCD Exceed cranks?

Thanks Garth, looks great, could not find it with a 165mm. On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 4:15 PM Garth wrote: > > > Have you seen these Andel cranks Joel, they're 110 BCD 170mm straight > arms from Andel, who is a well known quality crank manufacturer. They also > happen to make Rivs Silver crank.

[RBW] Re: Anyone using SunXCD Exceed cranks?

Have you seen these Andel cranks Joel, they're 110 BCD 170mm straight arms from Andel, who is a well known quality crank manufacturer. They also happen to make Rivs Silver crank. This particular crank only says "forged", but frankly neither are many high quality cranks, like TA Carmina.

Re: [RBW] Re: Anyone using SunXCD Exceed cranks?

Thanks, I know Peter, he is going to build some wheels for me. I wonder if this makes for a wider Q than using the 110 adaptor? The shop in the YK can do it all, I an just not versed in the Pro 5 V chainrings. I have almost always used the Zephyr but sold my other one on a bike (kicking myself

[RBW] Re: Anyone using SunXCD Exceed cranks?

The triple TA Cyclotourise Pro 5 Vis is just the double with longer bolts and extra spacers and another chainring. I have a SunXCD, but I run it as a single with a VO chainring. For the triple, the outer chain ring bolts to the crank and the inner two chain rings bolt to the outer chainring.

[RBW] Re: Anyone using SunXCD Exceed cranks?

After corresponding with a shop in the UK the suggest using TA Pro 5 Vis Cyclotouriste. The day I could do a triple with this but everywhere I have looked shows them as an inner/outer. For a bunch more money I could get a 110 adapter and use TA Zephyr rings which I have used in the past,

Re: [RBW] Re: Anyone using SunXCD Exceed cranks?

I have a few thousand on mine and am totally delighted with it. I'm also pretty tough on cranks and BB - 6'3", 215, stand hard and ride aggressively. What was broken was used T/A left side arm of unknown age. I wasn't really complaining about anything, as much as justifying why I bought

Re: [RBW] Re: Anyone using SunXCD Exceed cranks?

Thanks Ron and Dave, and an FYI for anyone else who may interested, lives in the Bay Area and likes to throw money Hiroshi's way: Jitensha doesn't have any at the moment. On Thursday, January 7, 2016 at 10:06:06 AM UTC-8, Ron Mc wrote: > > that's less than I paid from Japan. > > On Thursday,

[RBW] Re: Anyone using SunXCD Exceed cranks?

The photo shows that the crank seated fairly deeply. It was well within the range of what's acceptable. Much deeper, and you run the risk of bottoming out the crank bolt. The taper has a very shallow angle, so even small variations in the taper cause big differences in how deep the crank seats.

[RBW] Re: Anyone using SunXCD Exceed cranks?

no worries Jan. It was clearly fatigue cracking that started at the inside corners of the taper in the crank arm. Also when I removed the drive side TA, I cleaned the tapers and dye-checked them. There were no cracks, but there's also a lot more metal cross section there. I'm pretty good

[RBW] Re: Anyone using SunXCD Exceed cranks?

Ron, I wasn't worried about the SKF BB's reputation, but just trying to figure out what could have happened to your poor crank. (I used to run a bunch of second-hand TAs without problems, but I switched to a René Herse on my Urban Bike as a precaution.) Interestingly, with the old TA crank

Re: [RBW] Re: Anyone using SunXCD Exceed cranks?

Jan/Ron/all, just a quick note, and I'll need to dredge the archives - but seem to recall some scuttlebutt that the 1st batch of these XCD cranks had breakage issues, and possibly were called back. I hope I am correct in saying that! =- Joe On 1/7/16, Jan Heine wrote: >

[RBW] Re: Anyone using SunXCD Exceed cranks?

After I broke a well-used T/A left side crank arm, I ended up buying a Sun XCD crank from Japan, for a wheelset and fender rebuild. The new chainline was also a bit better, mostly because it better fit the JIS tapers on my SKF bb (which I think was at least part of the reason the older TA

[RBW] Re: Anyone using SunXCD Exceed cranks?

I always like your drivetrain pics, Ron. I usually stare at them for a bit :-) KJ On Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at 6:09:38 PM UTC-5, Ron Mc wrote: > > After I broke a well-used T/A left side crank arm, I ended up buying a Sun > XCD crank from Japan, for a wheelset and fender rebuild. > The

[RBW] Re: Anyone using SunXCD Exceed cranks?

Thanks for your response, Ron. Glad to hear some feedback on them. And that set up looks awfully pretty! I was wondering about the exact q factor since i couldn't find anything about it online, but it's good to know that they're at least somewhat wider than TA. Just out of curiosity, what was

[RBW] Re: Anyone using SunXCD Exceed cranks?

I think Peter's dead on, it may have not seated deeply enough, and I maybe contact stresses were too high. or it may have just been seated too many times on too many tapers. I didn't know the age of it, it was a

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ps, 48T on the gear chart was right out, it overlapped on 4 gears. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

[RBW] Re: Anyone using SunXCD Exceed cranks?

Obviously, Ron's answer (when/if he supplies one) will trump mine, but: Since the TA Pro V was an ISO crank (in all its generations, AFAIK), and the end of the ISO taper is smaller than JIS, a JIS spindle sits several millimeters (approximately 4.5mm) shallower in the crankarm spindle hole

[RBW] Re: Anyone using SunXCD Exceed cranks?

It's a common misunderstanding that TA cranks use ISO threads, when in fact at least the older ones are JIS. The reason is simple: The Japanese copied the Stronglight/Herse/TA taper and then made it their JIS standard. So the JIS taper could also be called "French taper". The ISO standard is