Originally Posted by
oldbobcat
How long has it been since you've seen a new "crit bike?" These pretty much went out of fashion by the late 1970s, no doubt because the guys winning most of the Cat 1 and 2 crits were doing it on pretty conventional road bikes.
Most road bikes these days have a BB drop of 65-70 mm, sometimes on the same model, depending on the frame size.
Yeah I'm definitely behind the times, lol. I'm thinking of my buddy who crashed his Schwinn Super Sport in his first crit and bent my rear wheel in half.....And being passed on my left by my pedal cap a couple of times in pacelines in centuries. I have those 175 crankarms. I'm still riding steel and toeclips.