Are there any tests showing what length crank is best for a certain rider?
I’ve done a ton of testing of crank lengths, and the fact is that it may not be possible to properly do such a test that gives a blanket result of X length is best for Y rider. Others have tried as well. You can find many papers written on the subject. I have yet to see one that met the criteria of repeatability. Briefly: In the mid 1990s, I did many months of crank length testing at VeloNews that I published in the April 10, 1995 issue, with a followup test in the April 29, 1996 issue. I went so far as to build an ergometer that held the flywheel and apparatus for a Monark ergometer; it was essentially a Monark ergometer (which I was familiar with because that’s what we used at the Olympic Training Center when I was there as part of the National Cycling Team) that took standard parts. (Most ergometers have square seatposts, a seat tube that is not coming off at a standard angle from the center of the BB, a non-standard BB shell, a non-standard stem and bar and no way to mount these th
