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Old 06-13-19, 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by 63rickert
Bicycles are not light load applications. Stand a 200# rider on a 6-3/4" crank arm and that is a lot of torque. At super low rpm, which is worst case for maintaining lubrication. Add in that everything on a bike is underbuilt and nothing remains in alignment. If it ever was in alignment.
If you say so, but I’d still like to see the engineering specs. I still believe bikes are relatively light load compared to industrial applications. Anyway I don’t really care all that much, so I’m gonna to go for a ride.
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