Chuck Schmidt wrote:
> Jerome & Elizabeth Moos wrote:
>
>> (cut) This is aggravated by the fact that Stronglight cranks are
>> softer than Campy, preventing the frequency of brittle cracking seen
>> with Campy, but making Stronglight more likely to seize to the crank
>> axle.
> I've never seen any evidence that Stronglight cranks are made of a
> softer alloy than Campagnolo cranks. Any published data?
I don't know of any published data, and nothing on arms, but we (Trek) did some hardness testing on chainrings and found Stronglight rings to be the hardest, Campy second, with Shimano and Sugino a close third, and TA the softest of the lot. This was done back in the early 80s, so things may well have changed since then. --
-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA