Changing trail by 1.69mm has almost as much impact on handling as changing the color of a bike. Piloting a bike with a fade is just inconceivable!
Seriously, if you make the tire larger/taller, then the distance from the contact patch of the tire to steering axis intersection with the ground also increases...the triangle gets bigger, more trail. See http://www.phred.org/~josh/bike/trail.html Trail calculator. http://yojimg.net/bike/web_tools/trailcalc.php On May 27, 11:57 pm, Rene Sterental <orthie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can you expand on your thoughts? Explain how a wider tire increases trail > and what that does to the handling of the bike? > > René > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:35 PM, William <tapebu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If a Roly Poly is 27.79mm in diameter, and if a Jack Brown is 33.333mm > > in diameter, that's a difference of 5.54mm or so. With a head tube > > angle of 73 degrees, that means you'll be reducing your trail by > > 1.69mm > > > I think that should make the decision obvious. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
