Crank length or frame size to put saddle in right place?

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  • YeehaaMcgee
    YeehaaMcgee Posts: 5,740
    craigw99 wrote:
    i checked last night on my bike and the center of the seat lies about half way between the bb and the rear axle - no amount of inline post and seat is going to position that over the BB. is that where the op is looking to put it? if so the only thing that i can think of that does that is a unicycle...
    Or a DH bike, with an 80mm XC fork, going down a hill :lol:
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    Nah some soooper short cranks would fix that in two shakes of a lambs....
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  • Cubist
    Cubist Posts: 73
    cooldad wrote:
    Obviously you missed the point.

    Numerous times.

    Well, no. No I didnt. Much of what I posted wasnt necessarily in response to the OP but to some of the other opinions expressed in some of the other posts.
    So obviously you missed the point.

    Only the once mind (not numerous times) but you did miss it rather thoroughly. It happens to the best of us. :lol:
  • Cubist
    Cubist Posts: 73
    supersonic wrote:
    And shame on the OP for having legs that dont conform to the industry standard!

    How did you deduce that?

    No deduction required - he states his leg measurement in the 1st post. A bit shorter than average.
    The "industry standard" remark was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the 175mm crank arms found on the vast majority of ready-to-ride mtbs for sale at the moment.
    The "standard" size used in the "industry", you might say.
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    So 30" legs are too short for 175mm cranks in your opinion?

    I still do not think crank length is the issue. I think, as many others do, that the issue lies on set up elsewhere, and this can be experimented with first.
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  • Cubist
    Cubist Posts: 73
    supersonic wrote:
    So 30" legs are too short for 175mm cranks in your opinion?

    I still do not think crank length is the issue. I think, as many others do, that the issue lies on set up elsewhere, and this can be experimented with first.

    Im inclined to totally agree with you. My post was not aimed at people with your take on the OP, but at the posters who dont think crank length makes any kind of difference at all. I happen to think it can.
    All the same, I once again stress that my original post on this topic was tongue-in-cheek.
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Lol, I guess we all like being a little pedantic ;-)
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  • Cubist
    Cubist Posts: 73
    supersonic wrote:
    Lol, I guess we all like being a little pedantic ;-)

    Too true - and forums are the worst places for it. Just glad it wasnt me this time!
    Thats why I like to poke a little fun every now and then.
    The guys who view scientific approaches to a problem with suspicion and think that every idea or development is somehow just some kind of con! We're seeing it a lot now with the 29er thing now for instance - people seeing them as threats to the establishment rather than as other option that might just suit them better. Getting a little off-topic now, lol. Hope you get my drift though.

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