I bought a Surly Steamroller a while back and have never really enjoyed the handling for street or path riding even. I understand the idea behind track geometry and why frames are built that way to work on the track, but the Steamroller's less severe angles have always been described as more road than track and after a bit of research and test rides, i thought I would be ok with the Steamroller set-up I had.

I recently bought these new bars from VO: http://store.velo-orange.com/index.p...ar-config.html and after installing them, noticed the bars really altered the overall handling, making turning feel super twitchy and touchy. I didn't like the super sensitive resulting feeling and quickly switched them out.

Can anyone explain the physics of what causes this? Is there any way to change the existing components (keeping the frame) that will make the handling less twitchy, more closely resembling a road bike? Any advice is greatly appreciated.