Bullsh*tters

[Chris S]

I'll start with people who reckon that 2.5mm shorter cranks will make your bike faster.

 

[jowwy]

I'll start with people who reckon that 2.5mm shorter cranks will make your bike faster.

maybe not....but does help the knees, also the diameter of the turning circle overall is 5mm less

 

[Blue Hills]

I'll start with people who reckon that 2.5mm shorter cranks will make your bike faster.

But surely they are lighter?

 

[ianrauk]

A joke for the older amongst us

 

[fossyant]

I'll start with people who reckon that 2.5mm shorter cranks will make your bike faster.

Quite, can't tell the difference between the 170's on my road bikes and the 175's on my MTB's.

 

[Chris S]

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A joke for the older amongst us

Bonehead and Foyle

View: https://youtu.be/l9GMykbClT8

 

[MichaelW2]

I'll start with people who reckon that 2.5mm shorter cranks will make your bike faster.

If you are very short, every mm less crank helps.

 

[cougie uk]

I do remember going to the gym in a MTB teeshirt and getting told by a nutter there that he was. Downhill MTB champion who had a 23 speed bike and was just back from the DH championships in Florida.
Why ?
He's probably in government now.

 

[Chris S]

maybe not....but does help the knees, also the diameter of the turning circle overall is 5mm less

I'd have thought longer cranks would reduce pressure on your knees as they give more leverage?

 

[jowwy]

I'd have thought longer cranks would reduce pressure on your knees as they give more leverage?

no - spinning is better, shorter cracks allow you to spin a smaller diameter easier......thats what i have found.

if you have to ride with a slightly lower saddle than normal, due to injuries ( like me) the longer cranks would mean my legs raising higher at the top of the circle, therefore more leverage required to turn over the crank and causing cramping of the space between the top of the leg and the belly area.....

 

[Sharky]

I suppose I've get to respond to this as I ride with 3 bikes set up for 150mm cranks and my TT bike with 145mm cranks.
I've proven that they don't make you ride faster. Although this might be something to do with my age as well.
What they do is lessen the knee and hip angles and this gives a feeling of a more spritely lively ride. It also has the potential to have a lower position at the front and a flatter back to give a more aero position.

 

[Drago]

People that recko they won the TDF by 3 days on a legal ebike.

 

[Mike Ayling]

I'll start with people who reckon that 2.5mm shorter cranks will make your bike faster.

Yes, because they are lighter!

 

[monkers]

I reduced the cranks on my bike from172.5 to 170. I did it because I got shoe overlap (SPDs) came off and seriously busted up my shoulder and broke three ribs. I changed my tyres to reduce the overlap by another couple of mm, and changed my pedals and shoes to SPD-SLs to reduce it further- and still they make contact. I'm going to arrange a bike fit to see what else I can do, but I'm currently having to pay for physio.

Bother I forgot to b******t, I'll have to return to this later.

 

[FrankCrank]

Red bikes are faster, everyone knows that.

Chain lube - only the best for me, made with the oil from boiled lark's tongues.

Brooks saddles - silly to try to gild a lily, but I apply a secret lotion made by the local voodoo man, very sparingly mind.