Crank tightness....

What are you tightening exactly? The crank nuts, the pedal nuts or the
bearing housing nuts? If you mean that the wheel has a bit of friction
when you turn it then you were tightening the bearing housing bolts,
the crank bolts do not affect the rotating friction of the wheel in any
way. If this is the case just loosen them off, over tight bearings
will wear out very quickly. If they keep coming close clean the threads
with alcohol (turps, meths, white spirit or something similar) and then
get some locktite (nutlock, nut adhesive - there are loads of brands)
and apply it to the threads before tightening the bearing housings,
this will ensure the nuts do not loosen.

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roger did my KH cranks onto the hub. Used his foot twice as leverage,
and I was rdy to cry.

Told him off, and said thx after. But he'd have replaced them if he
threaded it 🙂

apparently it's the norm.

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