How can this be with my new bike?

[Jo-n-NY]

Thanks for the link to the reviews. We found out from Specialized last year that indeed there have been problems with that crank. It had only dropped in gears 1 & 2 which are gears I seldom use and I don't think used in the first year of having the bike.

Keep in mind that the crank is from 2007 and they might have taken care of the problem by now.

I am fine with my none carbon Ultegra crank. I also purposely went on those hill repeats on Sunday to get over the fear of the chain dropping in those 2 low gears. I feel much better now

~ JoAnn

[aicabsolut]

Thanks for the link to the reviews. We found out from Specialized last year that indeed there have been problems with that crank. It had only dropped in gears 1 & 2 which are gears I seldom use and I don't think used in the first year of having the bike.

Keep in mind that the crank is from 2007 and they might have taken care of the problem by now.

I am fine with my none carbon Ultegra crank. I also purposely went on those hill repeats on Sunday to get over the fear of the chain dropping in those 2 low gears. I feel much better now

~ JoAnn

3rd generation FSA K-Force (in particular, the newer K-Force Light cranks) are supposedly ok).

But if was just a chain drop issue, you got off easy . I've known people who have had problems with a crankarm trying to fall off! BTW, compacts will often have a chain drop issue when you are too high up in the cassette and shifting to the small ring. It's good practice to shift between rings on a compact (both ways) from farther out on the cassette. I have to do that, and I have a 36T inner ring (less of a tooth difference).