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Septemeber 30th, 2018 --------------------- I got a decent amount of riding in over the weekend, and after two days of an occasional metallic ticking sound that I really, *really* hoped was just the left crank permanently and comfortably settling back onto the spindle, the inevitable happened this evening. On the way home from a quick jaunt to the local supermarket, the left crank started to feel odd. I could wobble it freely with my hand when I got home, and the bolt was so loose I could remove it with my fingers. It's obvious that this Ofmega crank is just not going to work out. I'm quite over this endless cycle (no pun intended!) of installing the crank and praying for three days that it stays put, only to have it almost always come lose. I just want to be able to ride the damn thing long and hard without having to obsessively listen to every little sound from the bottom bracket and worry about my crank falling off. I want this much, much more than I want to triumph over this silly non-standard crank taper, more than I want the bike to have matching cranks, and more than I want to not feel bad about splitting up a pair of matching cranks. This Thursday I'll grab that almost-not-ugly SR Custom crank I mentioned previously[1], with a perfectly standard JIS taper, and install it. I really hope that will be the end of all this crank drama! [1] gopher://circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/bikes/franken-peugeot/log/ag6_20180830.txt