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@Dammit
Is it just blind convention that 175mm cranks go on XL frames, or is there a rationale that makes sense, and that I will be flying in the face of?
With my grasp of physics, (which is reminiscant of, but worse than, a chimpanzee's grasp of the subject) it simply seems to be a case of longer lever for the bigger person, and the expectation that bigger=stronger.