koolshaggy
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Has anyone had any experience with Pro Tour Cycles in Watchung, NJ? They've had my MTB for over 3 weeks now, looking for a new crank (28T x 40T CHAINRING x 175MM, BCD is 104/64mm), as the old one had the pedal threads stripped out of the right arm. The guy says that both catalogs he orders through are out of stock on the ones that run $125, and the only ones that are available are $250+.
I don't have much into my bike. I bought it off Bike Island for $399 (http://www.bikesdirect.com/products/motobecane/fat-bikes/fat-bikes-fant-29px5-fatbikes.htm) so that I could ride around with my kids and on occasion take it on some trails around my house. I'd rather not spend $250 on a crank, and then pay to have it installed, so I've been waiting on him. When I talked to him last week, I got concerned because he said he was thinking about looking on the Internet for one, and he doesn't trust "The Internet" for bike parts......whatever that means. I found one on Amazon.com (https://www.amazon.com/SRAM-X-5-GXP...501305491&sr=8-2&keywords=sram+175mm+crank+x5) that I thought could possibly work, but he said that he already tried that one, and that I need a tapered crank, and this wasn't one of them.
Any help out there would be appreciated. I was thinking about picking my bike up and taking it elsewhere (I've had much success with Marty's in Morristown before I moved south), but wanted to make sure that I was doing the right thing.
I don't have much into my bike. I bought it off Bike Island for $399 (http://www.bikesdirect.com/products/motobecane/fat-bikes/fat-bikes-fant-29px5-fatbikes.htm) so that I could ride around with my kids and on occasion take it on some trails around my house. I'd rather not spend $250 on a crank, and then pay to have it installed, so I've been waiting on him. When I talked to him last week, I got concerned because he said he was thinking about looking on the Internet for one, and he doesn't trust "The Internet" for bike parts......whatever that means. I found one on Amazon.com (https://www.amazon.com/SRAM-X-5-GXP...501305491&sr=8-2&keywords=sram+175mm+crank+x5) that I thought could possibly work, but he said that he already tried that one, and that I need a tapered crank, and this wasn't one of them.
Any help out there would be appreciated. I was thinking about picking my bike up and taking it elsewhere (I've had much success with Marty's in Morristown before I moved south), but wanted to make sure that I was doing the right thing.
