Quote Originally Posted by Jo-n-NY View Post
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).