dd74 said:
Can't lowering the saddle compensate for having "too long" a crankarm?
This is how we are taught to set a saddle height, and it's incorrect and assumes a lot about foot size and cleat placement. And your assumption is incorrect. It may be fine and BCD but you knee angle at TDC will be "wonky" and ay more than 110º.
moving on.
as Kerry points out; crank length has jack to do with power. Watts = Force (N m) x Velocity (m/s). Pretty simple if you think about it. It's damn near impossible to buy a crank to short but is possible to buy on to long. The highest ever in-competition recorded wattage was set on a set of 160s and was 2700+ watts. Force
AND Velocity. People should be buying cranks based on their knee angle at top-dead-center not knee angle at bottom-dead-center. Buy your cranks based on injury prevention not power.
Anyone in doubt, check out Jim Martin's paper.
Starnut (who *gasp* uses a shorter crank on his TT bike than on his road bike)
