Originally Posted by
redlude97
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.
I am sure it is twitchier but I don't find it unmanageable. I think if I was riding with both hands on the flats it might be extremely twitchy but that made me nervous anyways even with a long stem as your hands are so close together it is like holding onto a 400 mm flat lol.