Old 07-03-09, 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by soonerbills

I saw one of the $49.95 MTBs in a big box store which had an Ashtabula crank which had cracked through the pedal threads!!!! Apparently it had been returned. Those low, low end machines are just dangerous.



Is this one of them? I posted this on the MTB thread as I never remember seeing a Murry MTB this old before.
No. It was a recent Chinese import. That Murray looks pretty sturdy.

The crank design on the one I saw looked about the same as all the other Ashtabulas, but when you're bidding for the bottom, apparently, the materials and process control can be shoddy.
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