The crankset – often referred to as a chainset – is one of the most important parts of a bicycle. As one of the key components that helps move the chain as you pedal, it’s at the heart of the ...

In any motorsport, the more you know about how the engine is performing, the better a driver is likely to do in a race. That holds for bicycles, too, where the driver just happens to also be the ...

We’ve spotted a Shimano patent that suggests the company is working on its own version of direct mount chainring cranksets. The patent describes both a road and off-road flavour. The patent ...

On and off for the past 3 months, I've been riding my bike to work. This morning, my left crank arm failed on my relatively new bike (I bought it the first week of August). A similar thing happened to ...

You always find that the moment at which you are forced to get off the bike and walk is when you are at the top of the pedal stroke - this is because at this dead point the rider has the least ...

Mountain bikes mostly come with three standard crank lengths, but which one is best for you? Longer cranks have leverage, but how much does that matter? Depending on the terrain you ride, it might be ...

A grand for a set of crank arms. No chainring. No bottom bracket. A thousand dollars for 410 grams of titanium. Two arms and a bolt to hold them together. There are no moving parts, there’s no monkey ...

Crank lengths have become a hot topic of conversation in the last couple of years, with many prominent names in mountain biking adopting the mantra of shorting being better. In most instances, they’re ...