Ba-dump-bump!

But seriously folks, a wider Q seems to helped out my IT band problem.  YMMV
etc.




On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net> wrote:

> Looking at the web site I see the DaVinci/White Industries Q factor is
> listed at a whopping 158 mm.  Jeez!  A stance that wide would getcha
> arrested at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport.  Hopefully that's just for
> triples and doubles are narrower than that.
>
> The trend to ridiculously wide cranks is an annoying anti-ergonomic one.
>  I've been sticking with my Ritcheys (138-140 mm Q) for years as a result
> (I've got a set of Truvativ cranks that are 140 mm wide too).
>
> Of course wide cranks are the consequence of stoopidly short chain stays
> combined with unnecessarily wide cassettes with 10 or 11 cogs on 'em.  I am
> baffled by cranks with birthing chair Q factors as a standard.  Certainly
> there are people whom these cranks work well for, but there are a lot of
> folks for whom they don't.  Seems like it ought to be possible to offer a
> range...
>
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