Bottom Bracket Height and Crank Arm Length

New Bikes, First Rides, Pedal Strikes, Bottom Bracket Height and Crank Arm Length. Well it wouldn’t be BikeCo.com without courting a bit of controversy so might as well start it out on a Monday!

Let’s begin with the disclaimers – this is not a medical post. I do not have a kinesiology background so can’t speak to the physical mechanics of what you’ve got going on. I do feel I can speak to my riding experience over the years on topics like back pain, etc. If you find parallels or concepts that help I’m always stoked.

I do feel I can speak to riding dispositions as well as mechanical dimensions.

Next – there is such a thing as too low of a bottom bracket. There’s also too tall for modern geometry as well. The industry leaders are just that, industry leaders… Ibis, Yeti, Alchemy and Evil all do a lot of testing to ensure that they balance cornering, pedaling and smashing through terrain when they put their geo spec’s together… Bikes also sit into their travel slightly different – but again comparing the best of the best we can assume none of them are out in the weeds. Continue reading Bottom Bracket Height and Crank Arm Length