Originally Posted by
fietsbob
they are straight, the offset is in the way the mold was made at a particular angle to the steering tube Axis..
low trail is more fork offset, (or smaller wheels)
Oh okay, I didn't see the offset. Seems like that would put more stress on the head tube.
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'fraid I'm scarred forever by an errant calculator I was using 3 years ago.
When I found out it was spitting out the wrong information it was a 'Your other left foot' moment. It was a wth scenario, see the pictorials, see the equations, but the calculator was wrong. I began to wonder if any of the info I was seeing was correct. Then I saw a video of two guys shoving a bike toward each other in a parking lot. The bike had been in a crash that bent its forks back perfectly head on. Thus a lesser offset. It sailed across the parking lot in a straight line. A little extreme for normal steering but it put me in right direction. So I found a calculator that actually worked.
A special hell has to await that calculator programmer.