We didn’t invent the tubular chromoly three-piece BMX crank—that honor belongs to the late, great Duke Romero at Redline Engineering. We also aren’t the first company to use a broached automotive spline on a round spindle—Jim Alley at Profile Racing had that great idea. Despite these shortcomings, our Mayweather crankset proves the oldest and simplest BMX designs are still among the best. We know freestylers and street riders who prefer our crankset to their sponsor’s product, and there are racers, MTB freeriders and a growing number of urban commuters who love the Mayweather’s combination of lightness, versatility and strength.
1.4mm wall straight-gauge 4130 chromoly arms with concentric taper
One-pieced forged and broached spindle boss with two tuck pin holes
Drilled and machined 9/16” pedal boss with TIG-welded gusset
Left-hand and right-hand drive compatible
Hollow heat-treated 4130 chromoly 48-spline spindle
Grade-8 center bolts and tuck pin hardware
Works with Spanish, Mid, Euro bottom brackets (BB’s sold separately)
No special sprockets required
Black, White, Bright Green, Matte Purple
Lengths: 170mm, 175mm and 180mm
Weight: 842g (1 lb. 13.5 oz.)
Ola Sprocket
For decades, smarter engineers at bigger companies than ours have tried to reinvent the bicycle sprocket, with limited success. In the ‘70s Addicks made BMX chainrings from plastic. Result? Disintegration and bankruptcy. Shimano followed suit in the late ‘70s with Dura Ace 10—the first micro drivetrain for bicycles—and a few years later with Biopace—Japanese for “egg-shaped,” it seemed at the time. Neither innovation survived. Today one BMX company makes spline drive sprockets, and another makes a sprocket that only fits their proprietary spindle size. When sub-30-tooth sprockets became the fashion in BMX, function was relegated to variables like tooth size (1/8” or 3/32”), tooth count and material. In our opinion it doesn’t make sense to add cost or complication to a solution in search for a problem. That’s why we make the Ola sprocket in every size from 22 to 30 teeth, and why our CNC-machined 7075 alloy sprockets are drilled to fit both 19mm and 22mm OD spindles with a supplied steel hat-shaped spacer. These ideas have been around for 25 years, and they will be around for 25 more. Unless, of course, BMX gearing gets so small there’s no longer any teeth on the sprocket, then we’ll all just ride Razor scooters.
Black, Bronze, Blue, Purple
Deuce Cranks
Our first salvo in the drivetrain wars for BMX racing are these: The SNAFU Deuce crankset. Deuce cranks are of the two-piece variety, meaning the 25.4mm spindle is broached and bonded to the cold-forged 6061 T-6 alloy drive arm on the right side. The matching left crank arm then secures to the spindle using a single center bolt and ISIS spline drive technology. This proven interface has been used on road bikes and MTB's for years, and has become the standard of the industry. Similar to the spline drive pioneered by Shimano on their XTR cranks years ago, ISIS drive is compatible with standard crank pullers and BB installation tools at better bike shops worldwide.
An external sealed BB comes with every set of SNAFU Deuce race cranks. This BB features external sealed bearings and threaded cups for frames with Euro BB shells—standard technology on today's BMX race frames.
The cranks do not include a chainring, but any 5-pin sprocket with 110mm BCD (bolt center diameter) measurement will work on Deuce cranks. Deuce cranks include the sprocket bolts and all related BB hardware, and are available in two lengths: 170 and 175mm.
Colors include black or red anodizing.
Weight for the set is 1 lb. 10.5 oz (w/o sprocket); 754g
Poly Pedals
We came late to the plastic pedal game, but there’s a reason: we just couldn’t sink our teeth into the whole glow-in-the-dark neon trend. Molded from medium-impact high-density polycarbonate plastic and featuring lightweight chromoly spindles, SNAFU Poly Pedals from Wellgo weigh a scant 168 grams per pedal. Fashion-forward riders will respect the Poly Pedal’s translucent colors, and tech-obsessed weight watchers won’t miss their low-profile spindles with needle bearings and outboard bushings. If you’re the kind of rider who dips his toe into every new trend, you can’t do much better than Poly Pedals. Give them a shot, but we promise, you’ll come back to alloy when your best friend shows up with a pair of SNAFU Anorexic pedals.
Smoke, Clear, Orange, Green
Weight: 5.8 oz. per pedal (168g)
Anorexic Pedals
If lightness, performance and high technology are driving forces in your bike spec, you can't do better than these. SNAFU Anorexic pedals start life as a 19mm thick 6061 T-6 alloy extrusion. After precise CNC machining, all unnecessary material and weight is removed to leave a slim, purposeful form. Both models of the Anorexic pedal feature super lightweight MTB spindles with needle bearings and an outboard bushing behind a simple alloy end cap. Anorexic pedals come in two sizes: 100mm wide for BMX and freeride MTB., and 75mm for mini BMX and 700c.
Black, Bronze, Purple, Blue
Weight: BMX/MTB—178g (6.25 oz.) per pedal
700c—120g (4.2 oz.)
Concave Pedals
Our popular take on Shimano’s prized DX pedal has been a staple in BMX for nearly a decade. Shimano manufactured their original for fewer years than that, but new old stock of this Japanese classic lingered in the underground for 25 years. Given these facts we’re not sure who’s more retro: them or us. In either case, our Concave pedal is still great at what it’s made to do, and that’s why we still make it. Since Levi’s are hot again, we’ll use a jeans analogy: SNAFU Concave pedals are like button-fly 501’s: rugged, reliable, comfortable, and affordable.
The European BB shell in BMX is not a recent phenomenon. In 1977 I rode a Schwinn that boasted this feature. Modern BMX frame builders made the switch to the threaded, small-diameter shell several years ago for two reasons: to reduce the weight, and because riders were smashing expensive sealed bearings with hammers, 2x4’s and other archaic tools. Euro BB’s, 22mm OD spindles and thin sealed bearings created an unreliable mix, so FlyBikes went backwards by pressing slightly larger sealed bearings directly into an unthreaded BB shell. Bike companies that didn’t want to co-op Fly’s solution concocted one of their own by pressing even larger (thus theoretically more rugged and reliable) sealed bearings into a slightly larger (but still smaller than an American BB) shell. When the dust settled there were four BB’s: American, Euro, Spanish and Mid. Nobody makes a high-quality BMX frame with an American BB shell anymore, so now there are three. Of course, we make a bearing set for every style of BB shell. Spanish and mid are basically the same: both models include two bearings, an internal spacer and a handful of external washers and cone-shaped spacers that sandwich between the crank arms and the bearings. Euro BB’s are functionally identical to other models, except there are four bearings: two each inside one threaded cup for each side of the BB shell. Most BMX bikes feature mid press BB’s, but there are holdouts for both Euro and Spanish, so we make all three.