Originally Posted by
corwin1968
The strangest thing is the steering. The front-end is wobbling all over the place and I'm massively over-correcting. The closest thing I've felt was when I was kid a got a true chopper bicycle with the front wheel at the end of a several feet-long fork. The steering on that was the same way until I got used to it.
I've got a 1983 Diamondback Ridge Runner and a 1983 Stumpjumper that both have really relaxed geometry. There's a fair amount of wheel flop at low speeds. I think it must be typical of bikes with slack head tube angles.