Building / buying a crit bike

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  • milemuncher1
    milemuncher1 Posts: 1,472
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    Why short cranks?
    It reduces the risk of grounding the pedals in sharp corners, which together with over cooking a corner, and ending up in the barriers, due ( in no small part ) to having too long a wheelbase, is a common cause of pile up in crits ( at cat 3-4 anyway).

    This is good stuff as well.

    http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/produ ... ter-188288
  • pippi_langsamer-2
    pippi_langsamer-2 Posts: 1,470
    Milemuncher1 wrote:
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    Why short cranks?
    It reduces the risk of grounding the pedals in sharp corners, which together with over cooking a corner, and ending up in the barriers, due ( in no small part ) to having too long a wheelbase, is a common cause of pile up in crits ( at cat 3-4 anyway).

    This is good stuff as well.

    http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/produ ... ter-188288

    Not to mention being better for winding up cadence/ speed out of said corners...
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Milemuncher1 wrote:
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    Why short cranks?
    It reduces the risk of grounding the pedals in sharp corners, which together with over cooking a corner, and ending up in the barriers, due ( in no small part ) to having too long a wheelbase, is a common cause of pile up in crits ( at cat 3-4 anyway).

    This is good stuff as well.

    http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/produ ... ter-188288

    Or learn to ride round corners properly.

    What if you're a 17o man/girl but then you buy 165mm to gain 5mm of clearance but lose the power you would have got from having the correct length cranks? Dilemma!
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Pippi Langsamer wrote:
    Milemuncher1 wrote:
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    Why short cranks?
    It reduces the risk of grounding the pedals in sharp corners, which together with over cooking a corner, and ending up in the barriers, due ( in no small part ) to having too long a wheelbase, is a common cause of pile up in crits ( at cat 3-4 anyway).

    This is good stuff as well.

    http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/produ ... ter-188288

    Not to mention being better for winding up cadence/ speed out of said corners...

    Hmmm - very debatable - see posts passim.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • JesseD
    JesseD Posts: 1,961
    Frame builder of old used to build bikes with specific geometry for crits that had a higher BB than the usual road bikes to allow for the cornering issue (higher BB = normal length cranks but more cornering clearance). Looking at the geometry of the Spesh Sprint, the BB height is exactly the same as the tarmac, and the wheelbase is 2mm longer on the tarmac when comparing 56cm bikes. Think its all marketing bullcr4p from Spesh here as a dedicated crit bike would have geometry to suit.
    Obsessed is a word used by the lazy to describe the dedicated!
  • dwanes
    dwanes Posts: 954
    Pippi Langsamer wrote:
    Milemuncher1 wrote:
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    Why short cranks?
    It reduces the risk of grounding the pedals in sharp corners, which together with over cooking a corner, and ending up in the barriers, due ( in no small part ) to having too long a wheelbase, is a common cause of pile up in crits ( at cat 3-4 anyway).

    This is good stuff as well.

    http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/produ ... ter-188288

    Not to mention being better for winding up cadence/ speed out of said corners...
    :lol: :roll: That's what gears are for, not crank length!
  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    This thread may be going down the toilet very shortly...

    Crit bikes these days are just regular road/race bikes. Ride whatever you currently ride for open road races, as 99.9% of the rest of the entry will be doing. Nobody changes crank length either. Messing about with your bike fit once or twice every week would be insane.

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