White Industries Square Taper Bicycle Cranks

Like the sign says, this is our square taper road crankset.  We used to call it the “VBC crank”, but the VBC chainrings are now available on our 30mm spindle cranks so to make things less confusing, we just call these “Square Taper Road Cranks” now.  This has been the go-to crank for thousands of road, track, cross, and gravel builds where riders were looking for a simple, proven system that would perform year in and year out. It’s easy to overlook our square taper cranks these days but in reality they’re as relevant today as ever.

Note: Crank bolts, extractors, and chairing lockring included.  Chainrings and bottom bracket sold separately.

Features

• Available in black anodize or polished silver
• Extractor caps available in:
  • Anodized aluminum (black, blue, gold, pink, purple, red, and silver/clear)
  • Polished bronze
• Lengths available:
  • 165mm, 170mm, 172.5mm, 175mm, and 180mm
• Compatible White Industries chainrings:
  • TSR 1X/singlespeed
    • Compatible with 8/9/10/11/12 and 12 flat-top chains
  • VBC 2X
    • Compatible with 9/10/11 speed chains and derailleurs (12 speed are too narrow)
      • Campy and SRAM derailleurs not recommended
      • Shimano road 9/10/11 speed derailleurs are best with these rings on this crank
  • “Double Double” 2x rings
  • “Bashguard” 1x rings
• Made from U.S. sourced 2024-T365 aluminum

Specs

• Fits J.I.S. square taper bottom brackets
• Not compatible with Campy bottom brackets
• Designed to fit 68mm/73mm BSA threaded bottom bracket shells
• Weight: 514g (170mm length, w/o spindle or chainring)
• Chainlines:

Tools

• Crank arm mounting bolts
  • Torque wrench (min 30 ft lbs or 40 Nm)
  • 8mm hex bit socket
• New chainring lockrings (current cranks ship with these) with 3 notches and outside spline, use either:
  • Park BBT-19.2, Enduro BBT-015, or any 16 notch/44mm tool
  • White Industries LRTOOL (3 notch tool)
• For old chainring lockrings with 3 notches only, use either:
  • Hook spanner
  • White Industries LRTOOL (3 notch tool)

Torque

• • Chainring lockring 30 ft lbs (40 Nm)
  • Crank arms 30 ft lbs (40 Nm)
    • We recommend retorquing arms after the first ride

Technical documents

• Square Taper Crank Assembly
• Square Taper Bottom Bracket Installation
• ENO/VBC crank dimensions