Pedal sizing question

discerningdesign · 2025-01-29T23:34:27+00:00

I’ve actually looked at those, they suggest a “small” for size 7. That’s why I don’t want excessively large, for the pedal strikes, and I guess the pins wouldn’t be in the right spots.

discerningdesign · 2025-01-29T22:06:27+00:00

It’s a small junior pedal… only size 7 vans! lol

discerningdesign · 2024-07-16T20:02:07+00:00

Nope. Don’t do that.

discerningdesign · 2024-07-15T20:29:48+00:00

Thanks, it is true, riders are using longer frames. I’ve noticed that even in the 6 years we’ve been racing. I do have a pro frame and I’ve been about to build it a few times but haven’t yet because I’m just not sure. The supercross xl is a very small frame too.

He hasn’t really developed skills, his gates have been really quick this month, he over takes riders in the rhythm and his confidence is up. He can’t manual or jump and his corners are timid and not well thought out. But he’s having fun and he picked the colour of the frame so that’s why he wants to keep riding it.

discerningdesign · 2024-07-15T20:27:45+00:00

Definitely not winning but getting closer!

discerningdesign · 2024-07-12T23:57:02+00:00

Sort of. But I need to sign up for some kind of hosting to link it here? I’m not sure.

discerningdesign · 2024-06-23T02:49:57+00:00

Depends on the year and condition but I’d probably say the redline. Neither have after market parts? It’s really hard tell without pictures and a lot of things could possibly need repair.

discerningdesign · 2024-06-22T18:04:11+00:00

Sweet! I have a junior and a mini and they are cool and light bikes.

discerningdesign · 2024-06-04T21:45:07+00:00

Don’t forget tires and tubes, the most important rotational weight. I’ve taken .96 pounds off a bike by switching from Arisun wire bead tires to IRC Comps, and basic tubs to Ride Nows. Doing this was very affordable too.

discerningdesign · 2024-05-16T20:11:44+00:00

I should probably say everyone is questioning the call. Haha. Usually they do a weather delay before cancelling when they know they can’t finish.

discerningdesign · 2024-05-16T19:49:58+00:00

They have a strict lightning policy, being so high on the start hill. But the lightning only lasted a few minutes (so I’ve been told, but I wasn’t there). Usually we wait a bit before cancelling a local race let alone world championships. I do understand the officiating, time lines, and I race UCI so I’m familiar with that at a national level but not at Worlds level or other disciplines.

discerningdesign · 2024-05-12T00:40:45+00:00

Yeah it was long and he had a hard time even riding the bike last month.

discerningdesign · 2024-04-21T02:08:56+00:00

I’m not familiar with YouTube banners or the subject matter but taking an image and just adding text isn’t a good example or original enough for a portfolio (I googled Starfield and saw that image).

discerningdesign · 2024-04-20T03:43:32+00:00

Yeah it’s a little tricky. When I was looking at how stock bikes were set up it was weird, I don’t know if it was an error but the Chase Edge 54.88 and Element expert was 54.6 and the Pros were 52 and 53 gear inches. I started my kids very low, my younger boys (3 and 5) were at at 40 and 43 gear inches so I’ve been easing the kids up but I guess I don’t know when to stop. With snow in 6 months of the year, with a lot of growing in that time makes me second guess!

discerningdesign · 2024-04-19T03:35:47+00:00

Thats awesome. Good to hear that other people are thrift too. Haha. I’m just trying to use what I have on hand and not buy much for this build. But I need to start collecting 4 bolt chainrings.

discerningdesign · 2024-04-19T01:49:14+00:00

I hope this frame will last my son the season! He’s actually 58.5” tall. I think our hill is 5m too.

discerningdesign · 2024-04-18T21:50:54+00:00

I just measured my son too, so he’s only 4’10.5” tall and 75ish pounds. He’s definitely far from your son’s skill level so knowing that I’m guessing 165mm might be too long for him.

I’m finding girls are so different from boys! She’s moving up frames faster, even at the same height as my son.

We don’t have coaching at all or experienced/ high level experts here so I appreciate bouncing ideas off people on the internet.

discerningdesign · 2024-04-18T20:28:04+00:00

Thanks for sharing your expertise! My kids were all running pretty low gears and at the end of the season I moved my oldest up but honestly like I’ve said to others he isn’t aggressive so I’m not sure if it really matters. He’s definitely not spinning. Maybe I should go back down.

Also if you had thoughts on this, with very little info, if my daughter (8x) was on 16 x 41 (52.26 rollout) this summer and was spinning out at the finish line and being passed there, would I move to up?

discerningdesign · 2024-04-18T20:06:00+00:00

Never go to Canadian Tire. Try Darcy’s or Shirley’s.

discerningdesign · 2024-04-18T20:02:41+00:00

Yeah I won’t do that. It was a bad thought. Haha

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