On Thursday, 27 February 2025 at 12:33:18 am UTC+11 Garth wrote: I suspect many people would like the feel of short cranks regardless of the bodily measurements. I'm talking about say 140-155mm.
A blind experiment: my wife, who is only 5'2", is an experienced cyclist, and has been riding on 160mm or 165mm cranks for over 40 years. She's always used quite a high cadence, and on the most recent bike I built up for her, I installed a pair of the 152mm Sugino XD cranks. I set the saddle height so that at the bottom of the pedal stroke she had the same leg extension as on her other bikes, but I didn't tell her that the cranks were shorter. She didn't make any comment about the cranks feeling shorter, but said, after three or four 40-50km rides on the bike, that she really liked pedalling that bike. I then told her that I had fitted shorter cranks, and she has now asked that I also fit shorter cranks to the other couple of bikes on which she does most of her riding. Nick Payne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/0b7898cb-ff3c-4ebc-bebc-94fd0486a8adn%40googlegroups.com.
