Thread: New titanium eggbeater spindle from Ebay

To repeat what was said. The Titanium Spindles all seem to have play when installed in SL's especially. Once you install the aluminium end caps they snug the spindles in place.If you have plastic end caps(some of the older style did) you may want to upgrade to aluminium. Wade

Quote: Originally Posted by BlownCivic Is your end cap screwed on, and tight? The end cap controls the side to side movement to some extent. Not that I've found. The side to side play is controlled by the bearing at the end of the pedal, which is secured by the nut on the end of the spindle. The end cap doesn't really do anything except protect the pedal's interior.

I installed Wade's spindles and the fit and finish is excellent! Wade's Titanium spindles are plug-n-play. Wade makes qualty products there is no doubt about that. I will be ordering the short spindles soon. Stock chromoly spindles Wade's Titanium spindles Finished product. It was an eggbeater Ti. Now it is 2Ti. Cheers, --Levi

Quote: Originally Posted by jbsteven Wade: Good to see things are running smoothly. Keep it up. OT??

$1g is a better deal than the one you get by buying singe Ti eggbeaters over the SL's. Which is somewhere in the region of 30% more per gram than the spindles. Once you get to the upper end of losing weight on your bike, it gets really expensive, really quick.

Quote: Originally Posted by TiSpindle How about posting some pics of you servicing your Shamanos Sorry, I was not planning on doing that in the nearest future. Maybe after the mud season. Will see if I have an older pair in the parts bucket.

Thanks Wade - appreciate that you are swamped and I look forward to getting mine soonest.

Quote: Originally Posted by bad mechanic Not that I've found. The side to side play is controlled by the bearing at the end of the pedal, which is secured by the nut on the end of the spindle. The end cap doesn't really do anything except protect the pedal's interior. My experience has been that even with the locknut properly tightened, the pedal body still moves from side to side on the spindle. Only once the end cap (mine are...

I realise that you have to go where the money is. You are probably selling your wonderful products as fast as you can make more? Any chance you will make some spindles for Wellgo's any time soon? They sell quite a few and everyone likes lite! R

I'm looking at building a new bike for the next race season and $/g this is one of the better upgrades. Frame Sette $0.96/g Seatpost Easton $1.37/g Cranks Lightning $$2.88/g (waiting on this one) Ti pedal spindle $1.25/g