Subject: RE: New Crank (with stages power meter) At first I would have leaned towards the DA 9000 not only because it looks cool, but it has the ability to swap chainrings without consideration of BCD like other cranksets do. So you could effectively change from compact to standard anytime you wanted to assuming you bought the extra chainrings. Then I realized that Stages is only using the non drive side crank arm, so you could just get a 105 crank with the stages PM in compact, then buy a completely separate 105 crank in standard and simply use the Stages arm on both cranks. Given the cost of a 105 crankset, you could accomplish this likey for less than just one new Stages DA 9000 crankset. I suppose you just need to make sure that the Stages PM is compatible (or doesn't need to be recalibrated) when swapping the PM crank arm with different cranks (with different chainring sizes). I don't think it's an issue...but just might want to double check. |