TA Specialites Cranks at Analog Cycles

[maxcr]

If anyone is looking for some fancy (and $$$) cranks for a build, I just saw James listed these beauties on their site. It's the Specialites TA Carmina Double Crankset, the chainrings are black but still a great option. They also have triples if that's what you're after.

Not sure if you follow them, but just like other bike shops I read in their newsletter that business has been tough this year so any purchase will help keep another great bike shop in business.

https://analogcycles.com/products/copy-of-specialites-ta-carmina-crankset-complete-94-bcd-double

Max

[Nick Payne]

When I look at Peter White's website, he sells a pair of Carmina crankarms for $243, spider for $92, and a pair of TA chainrings will set you back another $100 or so. That's around a $250 saving over the Analog Cycles price...

Nick Payne

[Andy Beichler]

When I add the prices you listed for Peter White's site, I get a $10 savings.  Did I misread your post?

[Doug H.]

That's some fuzzy math. ;-) The Analog price seems to be in line with the market. Although, I think the Rivendell Silver cranksets are a good value for an excellent product.

Doug

[Johnny Alien]

I added up the exact parts Analog uses from the PW site and it came out $5 more. Analog does all of the assembly as well which is not a huge deal but even small bits of time are worth something. So Analog has the better deal by a tiny amount.

I put a NOS TA Zephyr on my Proto-Gallop. Such a beautiful, lightweight,  and well made crank. It was replaced by TA with the Carmina which is equally nice but I preferred the Zephyr. So I recommend that product.

[Tim Bantham]

A couple of thoughts on this.

1) These cranks are gorgeous. Seeing them in person will make you lust after them

2) Analog's price includes labor to assemble the crankset

3) If you buy these why not buy them from great people at one of the best shops in the US.

[CMR]

Consider the $5 supporting good people, and also saving a phone call to place an order with Peter White v. an easy click for Analog.

[Glen]

Do we really need to disparage a longtime supporter and contributor of this list? Peter has been a pioneer of everything this list (& the iBob list) supports. 

[Kainalu V. -Brooklyn NY]

👆well said. Something in that VT water…

-Kai

[maxcr]

I didn't mean for this thread to go in this direction - it was a simple PSA. 

To be clear, I believe both Peter @ Peter White Cycles and James @ Analog Cycles have been amazing resources for all of us, both in terms of knowledge but also for the work they do at their shops.

Buy your cranks wherever you may, hopefully a small privately owned LBS like the two above.

Max

[Nick Payne]

On Saturday 10 February 2024 at 12:20:24 am UTC+11 Andy Beichler wrote:

When I add the prices you listed for Peter White's site, I get a $10 savings.  Did I misread your post?

 The link to Analog Cycles in the original post shows me a price of $693 for the complete cranks. The prices from Peter White, when added up, come to about $440.

[Johnny Alien]

Weird. Analog's price shows as $445 for me. All configurations.

[Joe Bernard]

Well THIS thread went to the bad place in a basket you hold by the hand. I see $445 at Analog as well. Nice cranks, Analog and Peter White are great sellers, buy them at one of those places!

Joe "I've called Peter for an order, I hate talking on the phone and he was super easy to talk to" Bernard 

[esoterica etc]

Nick, I believe your currency setting on the Analog website is set to Australian dollars; I got $693 when I plugged in AUD. Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page and reset it to US dollars and it should show $445 USD. 

~Mark

Kailua, HI

On Feb 9, 2024, at 11:20, Nick Payne <njh...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Saturday 10 February 2024 at 12:20:24 am UTC+11 Andy Beichler wrote:

When I add the prices you listed for Peter White's site, I get a $10 savings.  Did I misread your post?

 The link to Analog Cycles in the original post shows me a price of $693 for the complete cranks. The prices from Peter White, when added up, come to about $440.

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[Nick Payne]

Nick, I believe your currency setting on the Analog website is set to Australian dollars

 Ok, that explains it. Though it's rather misleading for a US website that I've not previously visited to automatically show me the price not in $US with no indication of whose dollars unless I scroll to the bottom of the page. They're doing themselves a disservice, as if I'd been wanting to purchase those cranks, I would have skipped them as having too high a price. Every other website I have used that allows me to change currency denomination from the default for the country it's based in requires me to make an explicit choice.

I do have a pair of those Carmina cranks on a bike, and they are nice, though I think the TA Zephyr cranks on our tandem are even nicer. Unfortunately the Zephyr are no longer in production.

Nick Payne

[Johnny Alien]

As someone that works in the tech field, I can tell you that Analog is using a third party commerce platform called Shopify. This is the exact same platform that Rivendell uses. If your currency setting gets changed on another site that uses Shopify its possible it could maintain that accidental preference through other sites. I'm not saying thats what happened but it CAN happen. For me, all sites using Shopify were defaulting to a payment method that I used once and I was unable to find an easy way to switch it back. It took a bit of googling. That is the fault of that platform not the shop. One could argue that the shop is responsible for the platform they choose (which is true) but there are few services out there and small bike shops aren't going to pay to employ a web tech to handle such things. What you are describing is a bad user experience NOT anything misleading that Analog is doing.

Agree on the Zephyr