I am looking for some opinions.
I was involved in a high speed crash this weekend. Thing were busted up a bit and oh ya, me too. Anyway, I've been checking over the damage on the bike and the one thing that I am confused about is the chainring wobble. The rings themselves are not badly damaged (just barely scraped), but there is a significant wobble to them. I removed the chainrngs and checked them against a flat surface and they do not seem to be bent. I next checked the spiders to see if they were out of wack and they three of the five are bent out very slightly either that or the other two are bent slightly inward. I think the latter is the case as they are the two on either side of the arm itself which was impacted hard enough to break my pedal (keo carbon). i next rotated the crank arm parallel to the downtube and tried to gauge the arm's distance from the downtube from side to side and if there is any difference and if there is it is very slight.
So, here is my question. given the above situation, do you think I can just align the spiders using Kerry Irons method of straighting spiders that is posted in numerous threads on this forum and call it good ? Or should I just replace the crankset?
I was involved in a high speed crash this weekend. Thing were busted up a bit and oh ya, me too. Anyway, I've been checking over the damage on the bike and the one thing that I am confused about is the chainring wobble. The rings themselves are not badly damaged (just barely scraped), but there is a significant wobble to them. I removed the chainrngs and checked them against a flat surface and they do not seem to be bent. I next checked the spiders to see if they were out of wack and they three of the five are bent out very slightly either that or the other two are bent slightly inward. I think the latter is the case as they are the two on either side of the arm itself which was impacted hard enough to break my pedal (keo carbon). i next rotated the crank arm parallel to the downtube and tried to gauge the arm's distance from the downtube from side to side and if there is any difference and if there is it is very slight.
So, here is my question. given the above situation, do you think I can just align the spiders using Kerry Irons method of straighting spiders that is posted in numerous threads on this forum and call it good ? Or should I just replace the crankset?