Glad this worked out for you, and it's nice to have a situation for comparison where there is one primary variable different.
But you mention something that I have read elsewhere, which is that "high trail" bikes (around 60 mm) can't change direction in mid turn. This is not my experience; indeed the best handling bike I have ever ridden is my Ritchey road bike, which should have around 60 mm trail given its 73 or 73.5 head angle and 45 mm fork offset on 700 x 25 mm tires. I can easily flick the bike around objects in the road while cornering fast downhill. Indeed, if one couldn't do that, this sort of geometry would not be the standard for professional racing bikes. On Nov 20, 2011, at 10:42 PM, Mojo wrote: > Tom recommended changing my rake from stock 45mm to a custom 68mm. This took > the bike's trail from mid 60s to low 40s. Well the change with the new fork > was not immediately strange or at all drastic. Now the bike just responds > more quickly to my steering inputs. What I have noticed is that on fast > descents the bike no longer tracks 'as if it is on rails' but will change > course if I ask it to. You may or may not like that. -- 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-bunch@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.
