Was this Joe at The Kickstand? Grin. With abandon, Patrick
On Thursday, February 28, 2013 4:48:37 PM UTC-7, William wrote: > > Kelly > > Back in my bike shop past life....A friend of mine was doing work on two > of his bikes at the same time at the shop. One he was keeping and the > other he was prepping to sell. About a month later he had his bike back in > the stand. He took the chain off, and the cranks rotated left leg down. > The motion looked suspicious, so I looked, and sure enough, he had a 175mm > right arm and a 177.5 left arm. He'd swapped them by mistake a month > earlier when he was working on both bikes. He hadn't noticed the > difference. > > He called the guy he sold the other bike to, and said "Um, hi, it's me > Shawn. Yeah, you've had the bike for about a month. I should, um, give it > a little tune up for you. Drop it off for an hour or so. OK? cool" > > > > On Thursday, February 28, 2013 3:42:38 PM UTC-8, Kelly wrote: >> >> I'm 6'5" tall and have always run 175's and read often about Zinn >> recommending 180 190 etc. Anyway when I built my Ram I wanted the Rene >> Herse Cranks at 170 for looks of course.. Anyway I can't tell the >> difference. >> I would imagine with my bad knee the shorter is probably easier on my >> knees as they don't have to bend as much.. just my thought but blah blah.. >> >> I put 165's on once and didn't notice till I sold the bike and saw it >> written in the crank. >> >> I'm lucky I'm not that sensitive to bike setup.. yet I have a friends who >> swears she can tell the reach difference with she puts riding gloves on. >> >> Kelly >> >> On Thursday, February 28, 2013 3:47:27 PM UTC-6, Michael Williams wrote: >>> >>> Hey Group, just wondering if any has any information on correct crank >>> arm length. Im 5'11 PBH is 89.5cm and Ive always ridden 170's without >>> thinking too much about it. Do longer cranks offer anything different? >>> thanks in advance. -Mike >> >> -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
