Yeah, Bill, I wondered about that as I was posting this. Of course, as Richard points out in the long chain stay thread, they also mean you can't pop the front wheel over rocks and roots as easily, so there is a trade off.
I'm pondering eventually trying a 7cm stem and just always riding with the front TrunkSack with a standard load in it to counter balance. On Monday, June 13, 2016 at 5:38:19 PM UTC-6, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > The Deacon teed it up with : > > "— Climbs: Current stem allows for enough weight on the front wheel that > steep single-track climbs without anything on the front rack (day rides) to > climb well. The shorter the stem, the harder it is to weight the front > wheel on climbs. > > Thoughts, ideas?" > > Those who find their front wheel pops up too easily on steep climbs > sometimes wish they had ..... wait for it ..... longer chainstays. > > Bill Lindsay > El Cerrito, CA > > >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
