Mike Murray

At Marymoor you can run any crank length you want and you will never have
the right side crank hit the track and make you slide down the track.
Alpenrose is a somewhat different story.

Mike Murray

-----Original Message-----
From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On
Behalf Of Brian Duhon
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 20:34 PM
To: Chip Slöan; Obra
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Track bike advice

On my track bike I run the same length crank on my track bike that I have on
my road bikes - but remember that the bottom brack on the track frame is at
a different height than on your road bike.

I don't know what the gears are on the bikes at Alpenrose Velodrome, but
back in Washington at Marymoor Velodrome, the rental bikes come with 48x16
usually.

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From: Chip Slöan
To: Obra
Sent: Friday, April 3, 2009 7:53:14 PM
Subject: [OBRA Chat] Track bike advice

So I'm building up my very first track bike to hit some Wednesdays and get
going on the track. 2 Questions:

1) Crank length. How long can I go? I run 175s on the road bike, but it
seems most run shorter cranks.

2) What gear ratios are good to start with? Like what are on the rental
bikes?

Thanks,

Chip