Originally Posted by Thylacine
- Going from 73 degree head angle to 72.5
- Going from 48mm rake fork to 50mm
- Stays from 425 to 415
- Top tube from 605 to 595, stem from 120 to 130.
So basically, you'll never see me on anything with any angles approaching 74-75 degrees. Maybe a track bike if I ever built one, but never on the road.
I assume you like Kennedy's idea about the long stays? Is anyone else doing it?
That Scapin I had must've had a 74+ degree headtube -- it was so twitchy that it was almost dangerous.
When I bought one of the aluminium Taiwanese robot frames off Kennedy a few years ago, I'd been mainly riding my Ralieigh, which has pretty light steering. This Kennedy import (the guy who painted it reckons it's a Norco
) has heavier steering, and I complained to John that it made the bike feel slow, blah, blah, even though I liked the stability.......but after I got used to it I realized that something like 73 degrees is MUCH better than trying to get my bikes to feel like the track bike I had when I was 21
