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Shimano's Hollowtech Double Crankset makes sweet, sweet love to Dura Ace and Ultegra groupsets. Shimano’s Hollowtech design shaves weight without compromising strength, helping you to the top of climbs with a little less huff. The inner chainring's tooth profiles are specifically engineered to maintain smooth, precise shifting, and the bling in the crank arms work great for dazing and distracting competition and angry motorists. Stiff and lightweight, this Shimano crankset hums down the highway.
I have a comfortable old 8 speed steel bike in my bike collection that I might keep forever, but I think I would like to put a new, modern stiffer crankset on it. Would its 8 speed chain work on this crankset or would it rattle around too much? I assume that the old 8 speed chain is wider.
You can use this with an 8sp setup and it will work pretty good. If you want it to work better then use a 9sp chain, which will work with an 8sp cassette just fine. The only concern with that is that the cassette isn't too worn out and mated to the chain that's currently on there.I also own an old steel frame that I truly love and one thing to consider is that a stiffer crankset will only expose how "soft" the steel has become in your frame. You can check this by standing next to your bike and tilting it away from your body. Put the pedal closest to you in the 6 o'clock position and step on it while looking down at the bottom bracket. Check for flex in the frame or crankset.
Good question. A 172.5mm crankset is usually speced' with frames in the 54 - 56 cm range. The difference is pretty small but bike fitters often suggest different crankarm depending on your body structure. Not knowing how tall you are it's tough to say. If you have a long torso (short leg) you may want the 170, if you are average to longer legged use the 172.5.
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in⋅te⋅grat⋅ed [in-ti-grey-tid] –adjective1. combining or coordinating separate elements so as to provide a harmonious, interrelated whole2. organized or structured so that constituent units function cooperativelyYup, insert bottom bracket and crank somewhere into those definitions. KC