Originally Posted by
BCRider
Fuzz, did you turn the whole fork around or just the stem and bars? Just turning the stem around will make the bars feel a bit odd but it won't make the bike unridable.
Or if you have a longer stem it would sure make it feel odd. A lot of recumbant riders have to deal with this because the steering is so far out infront of them. They call it "tiller steering" because they end up moving the bars more side to side instead of just turning them. It takes a while to get used to it from what is printed about it.
It was a longer stem, and come to think of it, it was paired with swept back handlebars. All things considered, my hands were probably a good foot behind the head tube. The bike wasn't exactly unridable, I did ride it for about a week, but the tiller effect was so pronounced that it was a major effort to get the bike to follow a straight line. Any slight twitch sent me reeling in one direction or another.
And not to mention, the handlebars would hit me in the knee.
Come to think of it, it was probably a by-product of my particular set up more than anything else. Apparently threadless stems make me do stupid things.