A popular GS that is value for money and used by masses of cyclists is not without its defect

Wheels of Happiness
Rizal Philippines
August 20, 2018

Epic failure of an 11 speed model Ultegra cranks


This post made link to an article which  enumerated the list of winning  framesets  at recent TDF.  All of a sudden there was a query/comment as to winning GS at each stages.  Of course that it is an unfair question because I am not a witness to TDF, nor do this post have data on the query.

Obviously the commentator is pro that Japnese brand.  Yet data shows that for the entire TDF history the winning brand is from Italy 41 as against only 7 for the Japanese brand.   I might speculate that many people worldwide are using the affordable Japanese brand.

But if you have used the Italian brand, you will not use any other brand because of its beauty and superior performance brought about by long learning curve (manufacturing and quality prowess)

The Japanese brand is also not without its defects like crank parts separating from the other crank parts as reported    NB.   We are not brand bashers.  But hindi perfect ang Japanese brand na ito...

Musing on S hollow tech

That is why the cranks now are wider rather than round.