Originally Posted by sivat
Thats a crazy amount of overlap, but 145s will make your pedal stroke pretty weak. You'll lose about 15% of your power (assuming you have 170mm cranks now)
Says who?
Some sources would disagree with you. Lennard Zinn (who is 6'6" and sort of an expert on bikes for tall people) ended up outputting the most power with a 150mm crank. Who knows, at the lower cadences of street riding, a really short crank might end up being perfect.