In an early Rivendell Reader, Grant Petersen said that, as an experiment, he'd once switched from his usual sport touring geometry bike to one with a cyclocross frame geometry that included a very high bottom bracket. He said he found the bike to feel unstable to the point of wanting to give up on it immediately.

But he persisted with it and, after a half hour or so of riding, found he'd adjusted to it, to the point where he didn't notice the handling any more.

Then, when he went back to his sport touring bike, the bike felt weirdly slow and unresponsive, but only for the first half hour or so. Then it was back to feeling normal.