Haha. There is a generational talent in professional road racing, and that individual is dominant at age 22. That individual continues to improve through age 25, and incidentally switches from 172.5mm to 165mm cranks. He's just entering his prime, but now, all over the place, we're hearing: "sWiTcH tO 165s! It'S tHe ChEaT cOdE!!!" Like training and experience (not to mention "nutrition") mean nothing. I'm going to run what I want to run. If I want to go faster I'll push harder on the pedals. Some day Patrick Moore will figure out the secret sauce that Joe Starck injected into his bike that makes it easier to pedal, and then he'll bottle that up and sell it to us.
Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Monday, February 24, 2025 at 11:11:24 PM UTC-8 Steven Sweedler wrote: > I switched from 180 to 165 crank arms on my touring bike because of a very > low bottom bracket.A bit embarassed to say I can’t feel a difference, and > don’t feel like I a fiding any faster, though thats rarely a goal. > > Steven Sweedler > Plymouth, New Hampshire > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM Nick Payne <njh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 25 February 2025 at 2:37:16 am UTC+11 Steven Sweedler wrote: >> >> Several pro riders are moving to much narrower bars for the aero benefits. >> >> >> There is a UCI-imposed limit on how narrow handlebars are allowed to be >> for road events (350mm, I think). The other change that some riders are >> making / have made is going to shorter cranks. Apart from any biomechanical >> advantages, shorter cranks allow a more aero position because the rider's >> knees are not coming up as far at the top of the pedal stroke, so the torso >> can be lower without reducing the hip angle to the point where power >> production suffers. Tadej Pogačar started his racing career on 172.5mm >> cranks. A couple of year ago he moved to 170mm, and last year to 165mm, and >> his results after the change speak for themselves - last year he entered 27 >> races and won 24 of them, including two monuments, the Giro, the TdF, and >> the world road championship. Pogačar is 5'8", not particularly tall, >> but even Wout Van Aert, who is 6'3", is now using 165mm cranks on his road, >> cyclocross, and TT bikes. >> >> Nick Payne >> >> -- >> > 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-bun...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/08efa1b5-d00c-43f7-beb5-fec4e84fcc1dn%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/08efa1b5-d00c-43f7-beb5-fec4e84fcc1dn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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 view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/01cafaa6-7b0d-4328-91fd-4dc1e5ece333n%40googlegroups.com.
