Originally Posted by TejanoTrackie

Pedal strike on the road is a different situation than on the track. On the road it is your inside pedal that hits the road when leaned over in a turn at speed, and crit riders on geared bikes coast through the apex of the turn to avoid pedal strike. On the track it is actually the outside pedal that hits the banked turn when you are either going slowly or turning uptrack. Depending on the track's banking, a road conversion with long cranks may or may not be safe on a track. The OP's home track in Houston (Alkek) has relatively shallow banking, so a road conversion might be OK, but my home track (Superdrome) has very steep 44 degree banking where road conversions are strictly verbotten. In any case, riding fixed on the road is very different from riding on a banked track, and I have different FG bikes for those purposes.