On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 08:47 -0600, Tim McNamara wrote: > 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.
No one said that. > 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. There's a relationship between geometric trail and tire width: the narrower the tire, the less the pneumatic train, so the more geometric trail you need. It's true in the opposite direction as well: the wider the tire, the more pneumatic trail, and so the less geometric trail you need. -- 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.
