Most of my bikes have 180mm cranks now. The Quickbeam came with....gasp!...175s! Couldn't really tell the difference. A wider Q I can feel, crank length...not so much.
Some BMX bikes (used to at least) come with 185mm cranks...they seemed to have a greater range of crank lengths than other types of bicycles do. Angus On Aug 21, 10:27 pm, doug peterson <dougpn...@cox.net> wrote: > I'm going with Eric on this one. I have bikes with both 170 and 175 > and can't tell any difference at all. Maybe we share a similar riding > style. There are areas where a lack of sensitivity simplifies life. > > dougP > > On Aug 21, 6:07 pm, EricP <ericpl...@aol.com> wrote: > > > Well, I'm 6' nuthin' and my bikes have 170, 175 and 180 cranks. > > Didn't realize the last one until looking at my Fargo one day and > > realizing it had these really long crank arms. Never even noticed the > > difference. Funny enough, my one century is on the bike with too > > longa cranks. > > > Probably means that my riding style is sufficiently poor that things > > like that go unnoticed, but it sure makes buying replacement cranks > > easy. "What length do you want?" "Whaver you have that's cheapest." > > > Eric Platt > > St. Paul, MN > > > On Aug 21, 8:17 am, Cycletex <clifwrightpho...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > Thanks for posting that. As a tall rider I've never tried long cranks. > > > As it happens, I take delivery of a custom bike next week with 185mm > > > TA cranks. I'm almost hoping that they're not all that. My other three > > > bikes with 175's are going to be quite costly to convert if they are. > > > > On Aug 21, 7:13 am, Garth <garth...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > In regards to longer cranks, there's a lot of unfounded fear and mis- > > > > information that gets spread . Longer cranks don't hurt your knees, > > > > or slow your cadence, or ruin your pedal motion. Resistance domes from > > > > fear of change.... fear of the unknown. We all experience it. > > > > > There's 3 groups about longer cranks. Those that have tried them and > > > > found them invaluable. Those that try them and didn't like them. Those > > > > that talk about them but never tried them. > > > > > I refer to this > > > > ....http://www.nettally.com/palmk/crwives.html-Hidequoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
