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yes

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Happysquidman, when I first started grinding and pedal grabbing I asked
the same question. However, I soon learned that trying to protect you're
cranks is a waste of time. It's inevitable that they will scratch, chip,
and dent. Don't worry about it.

On thing that works well for protecting the paint on your frame is Satin
polyurethane. I put 3 or 4 coats on my frame after I re-painted it and
sratching has been kept to a minimum.
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Theres no real point in protecting the cranks, and if you really wanted
to you could repaint them or chrome them, but there is no point. You
could weld a small plate to the bottom of your dominant crank but it
would probably get in the way and cause nothing but trouble. So "NO"
there really isn't anything that you can protect your crank with. Total
uni, *sigh*.

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Yea...I powdercoated a pair of KH cranks that get used A LOT for crank
grabbing, and that held up well for a few weeks, but now they're
trashed.

It isn't really worth protecting them too much, as the friction and
slamming of the grabs just annihilates everything.

I think chrome may hold up pretty well for a while, but it will, like
everything else, eventually get ruined.

Focus on what you're doing with your cranks and not what they look like,
so to speak.

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Catboy and Total-Uni, will you please stop wrecking every thread?
You two sound like my 8 and 9 year old cousins. To bad we can't
institute a 50 foot seperation rule.

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uni412 said:

*Catboy and Total-Uni, will you please stop wrecking every thread?
You two sound like my 8 and 9 year old cousins. To bad we can't
institute a 50 foot seperation rule. *

Don't demean me to a lower level because I correct the obvioulsy
wrong... It's no offense to to total uni he just needs to lear to think
before he speaks(or types)

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will the scratches make the cranks not work or make them not as strong?

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Nah, the scratches don't effect the cranks performance.

That is unless you crack the crank and you just think it is a scratch,
but that hasn't happened to me before, so I dunno about it.

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happysquidman said:

*will the scratches make the cranks not work or make them not as
strong? *

The scratches are just miniscule shavings of pait and metal, and wont
affect it whatsoever. But you will probably not get cracks just from
grinding, unless they are pretty cruddy cranks.

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But if every time you do a grab or a grind, and you take off some of the
metal, won't the crank get slowly weaker because layers of metal are
disappearing?

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Sigurd said:

*But if every time you do a grab or a grind, and you take off some of
the metal, won't the crank get slowly weaker because layers of metal
are disappearing? *

I guess eventually it would but you would literally have to grind about
a mile before it wore down any...

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i must be weird, but when i bought my cranks i intentionaly got black
ones so they'd get all scratched!

its not yout cranks you have to worry about though, its the bearing
holders and hub flanges.

actualy my cranks are a bit wrecked now, but they are profiles, so what
the hell!

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Yea, can't grinding pop spokes and stuff if you don't do it correctly?

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So far I have only scratched up my bottom bearing housing and removed
some paint and scratched the cranks and pedals. In a month or two I am
probably going to have to replace the housing, just so it doesn't break
but I would say that 3 bucks is more than a fair price. But I suggest
getting smaller housing screws, because I have fallen because the screws
on the housings grabbed...

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Catboy said:

*... you would literally have to grind about a mile before it wore
down any... *

C'mon catboy, could you stop pulling facts out of thin air?! On solid
steel cranks, grinding won't damage them much at all. On painted hollow
cranks like Onza and black profiles, you really can weaken the crank
enough for it to break, but it takes a long time. Noone knows how far or
long you'd have to grind before it'd trash your cranks. It depends on
the material of the ledge or rail and your crank. I asked Dan Heaton if
he's ever ground through a set of cranks, and he hasn't. I'm sure he's
effectively done around a mile of grinds.

I would be seriously surprised if you had to replace the housing on the
yuni frame. I've been pedalgrabbing, crankgrabbing, and grinding for
around a year, and my Onza housings are fine. If it really is that bad,
simply revers which housing is on your grind side.

digitalattrition: I've never ground a spoke off grinding, but something
to be careful of is on big pedal-gaps or grabs onto rocks, you can have
a piece of the rock smash into a sopke onyour wheel. This has happened
to me, and first it bent the poke, and then, finally, the head of the
nipple sheared off. I think if you have a fat enough tire, it protects
from the spoke heads from shearing off.

I think that your crank will be worn oout or broken by spline wear or
metal fatigue long before grind damage becomes a factor.

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I never siad it would damage any, I was just giving an example to state
that you probably won't grind down cranks, before you bend/break them.
Chill.

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I remember several threads about Onza cranks that got smashed during
pedal grabs. If my memory serves, some people had problems with the
axle bolt getting smashed, thus making it impossible to remove the
crank. I believe the Bevan had this problem.

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yeah. I have smashed my cranks enough that the dust cap has had material
kinda merge with the bolt. It makes it so I can't remove the dustcap or
bolt, but the crank can still be removed. That's just a weak point of
the Onza design, although I guess that is proof that grinds can damage a
crank, although it hasn't weakened mine any. Trip has bent his Onza's
and damaged the bolt enoguh that he can't tighten his left crank. I've
never seen this happen with any other crank design except for a set of
profile dirtjumpers where the bolt was so reccessed that the metal
ovalized around it making it impossible to get the bolt out.

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