I'm going with Eric on this one.  I have bikes with both 170 and 175
and can't tell any difference at all.  Maybe we share a similar riding
style.  There are areas where a lack of sensitivity simplifies life.

dougP

On Aug 21, 6:07 pm, EricP <ericpl...@aol.com> wrote:
> Well, I'm 6' nuthin' and my bikes have 170, 175 and 180 cranks.
> Didn't realize the last one until looking at my Fargo one day and
> realizing it had these really long crank arms.  Never even noticed the
> difference.  Funny enough, my one century is on the bike with too
> longa cranks.
>
> Probably means that my riding style is sufficiently poor that things
> like that go unnoticed, but it sure makes buying replacement cranks
> easy.  "What length do you want?"  "Whaver you have that's cheapest."
>
> Eric Platt
> St. Paul, MN
>
> On Aug 21, 8:17 am, Cycletex <clifwrightpho...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Thanks for posting that. As a tall rider I've never tried long cranks.
> > As it happens, I take delivery of a custom bike next week with 185mm
> > TA cranks. I'm almost hoping that they're not all that. My other three
> > bikes with 175's are going to be quite costly to convert if they are.
>
> > On Aug 21, 7:13 am, Garth <garth...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >  In regards to longer cranks, there's a lot of unfounded fear and mis-
> > > information that gets spread .  Longer cranks don't hurt your knees,
> > > or slow your cadence, or ruin your pedal motion. Resistance domes from
> > > fear of change.... fear of the unknown. We all experience it.
>
> > > There's 3 groups about longer cranks. Those that have tried them and
> > > found them invaluable. Those that try them and didn't like them. Those
> > > that talk about them but never tried them.
>
> > > I refer to this ....http://www.nettally.com/palmk/crwives.html-Hide 
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