Does anyone know why the Cervelo test team ran FSA cranks and mainly round rings for the spring classics?
I remember reading that the Rotor cranks were judged to be not stiff enough for some riders. As for the rings it was likely rider preference but some (well at least one) was using the Rotor Rings.
I’ve heard, and seen, of some FSA cranks snapping. Probably the cranks that I’m talking about were not TOTL.
Cheers,
Any chance it’s because they were a gimmick?
anybody seen a Quarq (sp) on their bikes either?
NOTE : I SELL SRM SO DONT JUMP DOWN MY THROAT>>>>just asking about the Quarq.
I’ve heard, and seen, of some FSA cranks snapping.
FSA or Rotor?
anybody seen a Quarq (sp) on their bikes either?
The Quarq powermeters were built to fit the Rotor Agilis cranks, so if they aren’t using the latter that is probably why they aren’t using the former.
I heard there might be a water tightness issue…
I heard there might be a water tightness issue…
From what I understand, that was an issue early on with some of the units supplied to the team…but the Quarq folks have already put that problem “to bed”…
My money goes to shifting issues; normally, with no major stress, there isn’t a real risk… but on cobbles, throw in the bouncing, etc… and those rotor rings are a beyotch.
Haussler had Q-Rings on his seventh place bike at Paris-Roubaix.
Ken
I heard there might be a water tightness issue…
No problem with ours after thousands of miles and some exposure to rain.
I can imagine that some of those guys are afraid of dropping a chain on those particular roads. So far my son (who has an Agilis crankset and Q-Rings on his P3C and Q-rings on his R3 on a FSA crankset) has not dropped a chain even once in more than 15 races this year. Mexican roads are not pavé, but some are pretty close to that.
It would be interesting to know why.
Sergio
anybody seen a Quarq (sp) on their bikes either?
The Quarq powermeters were built to fit the Rotor Agilis cranks, so if they aren’t using the latter that is probably why they aren’t using the former.
Correct. We built a bunch of Rotor CinQos for the team late last year. They’ve since switched to FSA cranks and it takes a lot of time (and of course money) to build a bunch more powermeters for new cranks.
Truckweaz is right, we had a batch of CinQos that went out in the past that had a few problems in moisture. That has since been fixed and any affected customers were taken care of. That issue was unrelated to Cervelo switching crank models.
Mieke Meyer
Quarq Technology