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[GTHODAD]

Whats your favourite 1 piece crank to ride on from the 80s.

[Tim]

Is this a serious poll ?  Because I was too poor to afford any of those in the 80s ;(

[COASTY]

Geez Tim they were only like $10 brand new.

[GTHODAD]

So what was YOUR favourite budget crank back then Tim?

[Tim]

So what was YOUR favourite budget crank back then Tim?

The cotter pin ones I got of an old road bike from the tip, I never had a bike so new it had a US BB lol; $10 bucks was unheard of for me as a kid Coasty.  Most I ever remember having was $5, when I got my Tange forks I did a heap of work for Mum and she bought them after a few months.
I didn't have cash but I had a ute when I was 11 and firearms from when I was 12 so it wasn't all that bad.

[GTHODAD]

Cotter cranks of course -I upgraded my cotter cranks to some alloy racer cranks with a 3 bolt hole swagged on spider. Bike was a Sportsworld MX121.
Didnt know we were such snobbs-flaunting our one piece cranks around-Posh stuff eh?

[blackshark]

being a Goose nut, and loving all that factory signature stuff, I had to vot takagi, but I also love Ashtabula and have them on my early gooses

[laingy]

whatever came out stock on my hotfoot in about 83/84 was crap coz i weighed in at a massive 35kg max. and that was ringing wet and still managed to bend em. (though problably from crashing rather than shear torque generated by my hulking mass) I bought some top shelf (dear as poison) takagis after that, they were still on it when we parted company and were damn near indestructable.......... but most things were when you hadn't cracked the 40kg barrrier

[GTHODAD]

Team Hotfoots came with Sugino cranks. If yours was an X gussett Hotfoot then I have no idea.
I bent some 165mm no name cranks doing a gate start. I felt something give and when I stopped and looked at my pedals the cranks had bent about 20mm.

No I didnt try to bend them back.