Comments on: A tale of two cranksets http://bicycledesign.net/2005/09/a-tale-of-two-cranksets/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-tale-of-two-cranksets The blog about industrial design in the bike industry Thu, 23 May 2013 20:33:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Anonymous http://bicycledesign.net/2005/09/a-tale-of-two-cranksets/comment-page-1/#comment-56 Anonymous Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:59:00 +0000 http://bicycledesign.net/2005/09/a-tale-of-two-cranksets/#comment-56 Easier to carry out the brand engineering for which Shimano is famous. Embedding the crank name complicates this.

]]> By: Quino http://bicycledesign.net/2005/09/a-tale-of-two-cranksets/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Quino Sun, 27 Nov 2005 18:21:00 +0000 http://bicycledesign.net/2005/09/a-tale-of-two-cranksets/#comment-36 My guess on this is that the latest two incarnations of the Dura-Ace cranks are hollow. I do not know how thick are the cranks walls are, but a recessed logo may create stress points that could make a crank fail.

In any case I think that the 8 speed Dura-ace is the best looking crank ever. Great blog by the way.

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