• So I found this interesting article by our very own Don Walker

    http://www.urbanvelo.org/issue3/urbanvelo3_p44-45.html

    Remembering that he is a forum member I dropped him a line

    He wrote back within ten minutes !

    He suggested that I needed a trail of ~58cm the article above explains his reasoning for this

    His estimation was that to achieve this trail I needed to adjust the headtube angle to 54 degrees

    And set the fork rake to 36mm

    This I confirmed with this bloody excellent trail/rake calculator

    http://www.anvilbikes.com/images/1064634020.xls

    He also suggested raising the BB by a further 0.5cm

    Thank you Mr Walker you are a top bloke ...:)

    Buddha.

    I think you used the wrong side of the calculator?

    58 trail you get

    75 hta with 30.4 mm fork
    74 hta with 36.3 mm fork
    73 hta with 42.2 mm fork

    'Fast' handling bike track bikes have a trail around 64

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