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Steering felt unnatural so probably the lengths are not correct, but I assumed the different lengths are to compensate for the different headtube angles. I need to dampen and restrict the movement. I tried quickly in the bad weather on friday and the front wheel was like a fishtail, shook and wobbled, and when correcting it was easy to oversteer and lock out the wheel.
For sure there is an element of inexperience, but I want to restrict the potential to oversteer and lock out, reduce the wobbling of the front wheel - I would hope that aids steering and control, when I can trust the front wheel not to make its own decisions.
I think that maybe the steerer rod needed tightening down too, as it had a chance to swing about a bit which didn’t help at all.
Will report back once I get home and can test it this week sometime.
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Do you need to slow the steering down a bit on that? It’s difficult to tell from the pic but it looks a bit like the steerer arm at the bar end is longer than the arm at the wheel end. You want them both the same length and ideally both headtubes at the same angle so that both ends follow the same locus.