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Old 10-17-05 | 01:24 PM
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There's another way to get at this: Ride the bike, and see how you like it. How the bike rides is going to be determined by a lot of factors including the geometry of the frame, but also including the type of material, the weight of the team, the thickness and butting of the tubes, the type of wheels, the thickness of the tires, the length of the stem, whether it fits you, etc. etc.
You can go on ad infinitum about how head tube angle will, ceterus peribus, affect the handling of a bike. But in the real world, all other things aren't equal, and the only way to figure out wht works for you is ride the bike.
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