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I believe the only important consideration with crank length is what you feel comfortable with, and this will be determined mostly by the length of your legs. If you get overlap with the front wheel, I think you will find you get used to it fairly quickly even though it can cause trouble at first.
For what it's worth, my inside leg is 31 inches, and I am only really happy with six and threequarter inch cranks. (I had to write this out in full because the keyboard doesn't do fractions)
I make no apologies for the imperial measurements, but I will mention that 6.75" = 170mm.