Originally Posted by arsprod

this thread's been helpful - I built a winter bike this year and used 175mm cranks (what I had in the garage), my road bike has 165's and I'm 5'3". I don't notice any knee pain but have found that I have to the seat up really high. I'm used to spinning much faster and I don't like this languid spinning pace, plus my quads are getting tired! So here's my question - I just want to replace the cranks and don't know what will fit. The current ones are old Alivio. Will any Shimano crankset work? Anything else fit? Cheap is the ultimate goal here!!