Working with Mark Stonich (Bikesmith) the other night on a Dimension/Andel 175 mm mountain double crank I bought for this project, I came away with some 153 mm cranks for the ladyfriend. We'll see how it goes. For a lot of cycling enthusiasts, conditioned to the notion that 5 mm of crank length is a huge difference, 153 sounds ridiculously short. But they don't actually look weird. On a small bike, they look right. Proportional. Of course, looks can be deceiving, but my sense is that 153 mm is far from an "extreme" solution to a bike fit issue.
Incidentally, Mark S shortened some Sugino cranks for me a few years ago. In that case, the purpose was kid cranks for my tandem. I think they're 90 or 100 mm. So far, many miles have been happily pedaled on those cranks, by kids aged 3-7. -- 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-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
