What was the solution?

@@jasuseppala5295 he spent a lot of time on my shoes and configuring my insoles to act as an orthotic. Also put in spacers under the cleat on the shoe of my 3mm shorter leg If I didnt experience this, would never have believe that this would fix a very long term issue.

Yes arguable indeed, not least because the guy he looks up to a lot is still in the business.

Yes

I'm about 173cm tall, 45 years old. I never had correct crank arm length until I replaced them 2 years ago. The right length for me is 165mm. Bikes usually come with 170 or 172.5 cranks. Well I describe it so. I'm now angry to bike manufacturers and I'm also angry to sellers and even bike fitters who write a lot of.. well lets just say confusing and useless stuff in their blogs, that won't help to decide. They always end their talk with something like. A smart person buy only one pair of cranks. A fool buys them all, or something similar... Tall people need long cranks was also one sentence I heard over and over again.. I did read many articles and blogs about it. I knew that too long cranks are bad by experience. I had tried 175mm cranks a very long ago. But I hesitated, because.. I did not want to be the fool who buys new cranks that he actually don't need. I got impression that it's not important factor. Why else they would sell bikes with different frame sizes all fitted with same crank length. Too long cranks really were a issue to me. The saddle height was wrong because too long cranks and it caused so much trouble. I did not need to change saddle height much after replacing cranks.. maybe I have lowered it something like 3 mm after that.. But really too long cranks are the root of evil. I don't say that I hate now all the guys who are taller than me, but I have crude to them, because they are privileged by bike manufacturers getting special treatment..

Yep, super comfy in my 'best' shorts, are ok in my old ones and terrible in my cheap pair 😬

@@Hardi26 my bike is 11 years old, and it was top end then, and also when I started riding. Just now in the process of upgrading to R8000 11s, and a new 50/34 crank with 165mm arms. I’m 5’6 with 29in inseam and should of been on 165’s from the beginning, but didn’t know any better, and I guess neither did the bike fitters I’d been to. For about the last 6 years though after a lot of research and study, I sort of knew I should be on shorter cranks but I’d had an expensive DA Stages power meter I’d recently bought and having to rebuy all that made me hold back a while.

@@GNX157 I don't have so expensive bike it's just a merida cyclocross bike bought as new on 2015, but the bike is the most important thing in my life and most expensive thing I own. I upgraded the shifters and rear derailleur to R8000 too this year. The cranks I switched from some FSA 172.5 to shimano FC-RS510 36/46 165mm. The difference is that I can ride much longer. I probably would not need chamois cream anymore, but I still use it anyways. Better safe than sorry.. I won't be out of breath after every small climb.. If I had this good bike 20 years ago.. If I at least had a bike that had as good fit. But well, this experience, the struggling through of years. It has a value too. I'm lucky that I never been into group rides. I just like to ride alone to quiet rural places and enjoy scenery. ^_^

I was researching too. In end I stopped reading the articles and just measured my femur's length. And decided by the equation that the femur length(from hip axle to knee axle) measured in inches is equal to crank length in cm. It was exaxtly 16 and half inches. to measure the femur. I mounted 2 sticks on outer side of my leg(one on tight and other to shin) with elastic bands, or actually knee warmers and something and then sat on bike on trainer and then moved the stick around until I found the exact axle at knee and then on hip too.. This way I had something solid to believe into. Otherwise could just keep reading and researching and hesitating.

😂 Sine definite truth there!

People get into cycling because it’s challenging. So something as challenging as a bike fit shouldn’t deter a motivated cyclist. But yeah it’s super frustrating. I feel like some discomfort is inevitable

@Ameen Younis of course some discomfort is inevitable. It's sport..Have you seen the faces pros make?

Answer is not to watch the videos