On Sunday, August 6, 2017 at 8:44:53 AM UTC-7, Peter Turskovitch wrote: > > Hi Bill, sorry if the question seems ignorant. I don't know a ton about > bike geometry. > > Can't you put upright bars on any bike? Lots of bikes take 2" tires. And > what effect do the chainstays have? >
You generally need to shove upright (& mtb) bars further forward than similar drop (or mustache) bars to make up for them not curving forward before coming back (You /can/ deal with this with a long stem, but it makes the bars more flexy and puts your center of gravity closer to the front end for improved endoing enjoyment.) Long chainstays stretch out the wheelbase and make the machine less choppy on uneven surfaces (and unweight the rear wheel, but not at the cost of shoving your COG over the front wheel. I think that long front triangles used to be an MTB thing? Dunno if anyone aside from custom builders & cargobikes did long rear triangles before Riv did, though? -david parsons -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
