One on one said:*I ride a Nimbus Muni with 150 mm cranks. I had a chance to try out a
KH with 140 mm cranks this summer. To me, it seemed very different,
and not in a good way. I could see myself walking up a lot more hills
with them. *
It's amazing what you get used to. Earlier this summer, on a 28 with
110s, I rode quite easily up a rough grassy slope and through a section
of woodland that I found impossible last time on my 26 with 150s.
On Sunday, I was riding on some slopes on the 28 with 102s and although
I managed most of them, there were some that were just beyond my
capabilites on those cranks - but they used to be much trickier on the
longer cranks a year ago.
And a couple of years back, I gave away some 170s because they made my
26 harder to ride in all circumstances except on a long straight
descent, and I went back to the 150s.
There's a big element of psychology, and of preference and of
familiarity. The arithmetic is only half the story. However, I'm
confident that if you'd bought your uni with 140s, and then later tried
150s, you would have had similar doubts - they would have felt slow and
unwieldy. For 7% difference, there will be few cases in which it is
critical to your success on a short climb or descent.
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Mikefule - Roland Hope School of Unicycling
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