Originally Posted by
nightfly
I like how something meant for mountain bikes with long stems and huge widths have been appropriated by fixed gear culture to be these short curvy things with room for not much more than a set of ourys.
Your average MTBer hasn't run a stem over 100mm since 1998
Back in the day of long stem XC bikes, bars were much narrower. Now 28" bars are often run on stubby stems. Trading one for the other kinda balances out the steering physics.
