What is your bottom bracket height? (floor to center)

CAN ANYONE ASSIST WITH THIS: my hillbrick has a BBH of 300 which works perfectly on the boards. my NAG is 280 and i am concerned that this may not be enuff.... i assume kierin track banking is not a severe as an indoor velo??

i haven't been out on the boards with the NAG yet....maybe its a case of sucking it??

Here's the general consensus (as I see it).

Put your crank arm at 90° / perpendicular to the road /pointing straight down, Lean your bike over until the pedal touches the ground - even taking into account shoe width and bumpy uneven roads in most cases you have to lean the bike over at a fairly ludicrous angle before you pedal strike - an angle where the tyre contact patch will fail you before the pedal gets to kiss the ground.

Here's the general consensus (as I see it).

Put your crank arm at 90° / perpendicular to the road /pointing straight down, Lean your bike over until the pedal touches the ground - even taking into account shoe width and bumpy uneven roads in most cases you have to lean the bike over at a fairly ludicrous angle before you pedal strike - an angle where the tyre contact patch will fail you before the pedal gets to kiss the ground.

You are entirely correct, but on the track it's a very different story.

You are entirely correct, but on the track it's a very different story.

Very true.

My Mercian's BB height isn't all that high, 280 IIRC, and I still get around HH OK with 172.5 Pistas... Meh... :S
Different story at Calshot, I'm sure...

hmmm, the track i ride is 44 deg, guess i do the 'tynan' test and utilise a protractor to gauge

280mm or 11 inches is kind of an old school standard hight for track bikes, i think it is also what they call 'manchester spec'. I have ridden 280mm BB hight on newport and calshot, including a match sprint with loads of dicking about on newport. If you run 165s you'll be fine (you'll probably be fine on 170 too)

do ya know the track angle of those tracks?
here's my local:

Dude, you could look for yourself, it is on the internet!

Newport is about 42-43 and calshot is over 46 I believe. As I said, you will be fine. 11 inches is 'track spec', the six day riders use bikes with an 11 inch BB hight and they ride tracks over 60 degrees.

thanks mate