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Low trail geometry helps to keep you awake on long randos like PBP because it’s so damn twitchy you literally can’t fall asleep. Sure I read that one once.
The thing is, that probably is true. It’s just a novel way to solve the problem.
He finds things like low trail geo and then compounds so many different reasons why it should work that an über-rational mind like his can’t see past the fact that to most people it just feels terrible.
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you literally can’t fall asleep
It just means you crash sooner when you do.
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Low trail geometry helps to keep you awake on long randos like PBP because it’s so damn twitchy you literally can’t fall asleep. Sure I read that one once.
It’s not, when combine with a handlebar bag, it felt closer to a traditional road bike without a front load, that’s literally the whole point of it.
It’s quite responsive without a load but not horrifically so, ridden without a load and it’s fun, club ride with a smaller front rack bag was optimal for half a day of riding.
It’s much easier to keep steering straight but not ideas for proper off road when you need more stability (such as hitting a rock make it easier to turn steering, which mean you’ll need more input to keep it straight).
It seriously ride better and glide around corner with a front weight, better than my carbon roadie even, just not as responsive to accelerate or stiff to climb.
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edscoble
Has anyone got a scorecard for Jan Heine retro grouch concepts. I feel we're ignoring many stinkers (like the above rando bag faring concept, which is dumb)