Yes ... 153 is not all that "radical" ! There are many triathletes that are using cranks as short as your kids !!! No Joke .... and they wouldn't be doing it if it didn't work for them !! You can get certain brands stock quite short, in a 110mm BCD. Origin8 goes to 140mm and a few go down to the 120's. Of course, when you go that short you must consider having a large enough frame to be able to keep the bars raised !! Triathletes don't have that issue of course .
It's funny how long held beliefs about things can be changed in a heartbeat !!!! That's the beauty of LIFE !!!!!!! On Thursday, April 4, 2013 11:24:02 AM UTC-4, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery wrote: > > 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.
