I sheared off my right crank arm near the pedal tonight while riding home. I was thankfully making a left turn, so my weight was on the left. The arm sheared as I was applying torque and it made me fall to the right. My backpack saved me from serious injury as I landed on my right side back. That crank is a 20+ years old Stronglight 105 (anyone remember this one?). The crank had seen heavy usage for about 5 years in the early 80's when it was on my only bike. Since then it's use has been relatively light. Maybe a total of 15k-20k miles. I've weighed the same all these years: 150#.
I know this has been discussed before, but can this be attributed strictly to fatigue, or age, or poor design. This is a grooved, forged "alloy" crank arm. Should I take any precautions to my other cranks such as replacement at a certain point? (for example a Ritchey non-grooved arm from the late 80's/early 90's that is on my primary CX bike, which I use to race CX)
Thanks for any input.
BTW, I was going to replace the broken crank with a NOS Stonglight 93...
I know this has been discussed before, but can this be attributed strictly to fatigue, or age, or poor design. This is a grooved, forged "alloy" crank arm. Should I take any precautions to my other cranks such as replacement at a certain point? (for example a Ritchey non-grooved arm from the late 80's/early 90's that is on my primary CX bike, which I use to race CX)
Thanks for any input.
BTW, I was going to replace the broken crank with a NOS Stonglight 93...