Ajax Bay wrote:
Incidents/Injuries: Shimano US has received 4,519 incidents of cranksets separating, and six reported injuries, including bone fractures, joint displacement and lacerations.
After seeing all the outrage roll through, I was made aware of these numbers.
LOL really? That’s what the fuss is about?
4500 cranksets failed out of 2.8 million over the years, that’s 0.16%. Six people got hurt. Let’s say the numbers would’ve been doubled over the remaining life of the equipment. That means you have a 1/300 chance of seeing the crankset separate and 4 in a million of getting a laceration or worse.
(Double those numbers again if you think they’re vastly underreported or something).
On average. Having experienced a catastrophic crankset failure when TTing at 25 mph, which resulted in nothing other than my left leg spinning in the air and me getting immeasurably pissed off, I think it’s even less likely for a solo triathlete (who will be riding on their own and putting out steady power) to lose their balance and have an accident.
"FTP is a bit 2015, don't you think?" - Gustav Iden