Originally Posted by queerpunk
how tall are you, and what size frame do you ride? how long are your cranks?
i felt way uncomfortable with track drops on my 50cm frame, with 170 cranks. i felt i was going to knee myself in the throat, and that i was too curled up for my legs to spin properly. so i gave up on drops, until my pretty pogliaghi came along and i got 165mm cranks, and cinelli criterium drops - shaped like track drops, but shallower. now, the drops are the place to be - in the drops, my bike fits me.
I'm just on 6' tall and I'm riding a 56cm Kona Paddy Wagon. I have come to love this bike more than any man should love an inanimate object. I think that it'll always have a soft spot in my heart for being the beast that popped my fixed gear cherry.
The cranks are 175, so yeah, I'm really keen to try some shorter cranks too. I've borrowed some old 170 Dura Ace cranks which I'm planning to put on for a try this weekend. What you're saying there really seems to make sense, queerpunk. I've been as curious as hell to see if shorter cranks will help me spin faster, but I didn't even think that they might make me more comfortable in the drops.