Originally Posted by
trail_monkey
I thought so. That being the case, why do so many people balk at running a short stem with drop bars? Everyone seems to act like any shorter than 90mm with drops is too twitchy. Maybe they need the extra length for times they are riding on the flats?
because a drop bar road bike accounts for this, hybrid flat bar bikes usually have longer effective top tube lengths in a given size. Short stems on the extreme end are twitchy compared to long stems.