Shortening your cranks

[Donnyboy66]

As suspected the hope cranks didn't work even though the people at hope kept insisting they were compatible. but it didnt cost anything to try. so now I'm on the waiting list with North Shore Billet.

I see the cranks are available again from North Shore Billet. Hopefully you got what you wanted!

 

[Rawmance]

Was in contact to US and UK for shortening cranks but I thought maybe there is someone inside EU or even Finland. Found a leanbiker who has done shortenings for years. Followed the instuctions on here and now I have 150mm Atlas cranks on my Rocky Mountain. It's great. 182cm height, 84cm inside leg. Had 155mm FSA ISIS cranks on the previous bike and I definitely like the 150mm more. It's really necessary for Powerplay as the power delivery is so lazy compared to Bosch gen4 that you really don't want to stop pedaling. Just feels nicer to pedal even without the massive clearance benefit. 165mm original cranks on A50.

Cost total was 500€ for the Cranks, new BB, 30mm lockring, drilling and install.

Drilling cost and postage inside Finland 100€.

Contact detail for Teppo for Finnish and possibly other European customers so you can ship back and forth without taxes. [email protected]

 

[skewered]

I machined some Turbine cranks down to 150.5 over the weekend. Haven't ridden them yet as I am still waiting on some of the parts for the exchange. They turned out nice though and I added a curved chamfer on both the front and back to hopefully skip off the rocks better!

 

[philbwy]

I see the cranks are available again from North Shore Billet. Hopefully you got what you wanted!

Today was the day. Installed the North Shore Billet 155 cranks. Went for a short ride. Raised my seat post 15mm. Felt a little different for about 2 minutes and then felt as usual. I will decide if I need to change the rise on my bars after I go for some longer rides. Pedalled through some rocks and lightly scraped a pedal once where I normally would have hit it hard. So far so good.

 

[EzRyder]

I reserved a NSB 155 with shorelines in the UK which i no longer need, get in touch with them if you want one without the long wait. My friend machined down a 175mm Atlas for me in the end, just need to fit it. Its prob about 148mm.