Originally Posted by
TandemGeek
Relative to the Wound-Up and any other fork options other than a 55mm Santana-spec fork, please ask Steve, Bill or whoever you talk to at Santana how that 90's model frame's handling would be affected by changing the rake to something like a 45mm Wound-Up. Santana like Co-Motion, optimizes their frames to work with their respective steering geometries. You can really mess up the 'balance' that builders work so hard to achieve by changing something as significant as the fork's rake.
If the Santana is in fact a 55mm rake then the trail would go from something like 47-48mm to 56-57mm when switching to a Wound-up with 45mm of rake
My solo bike has around 55-56 mm of trail, for reference.
Would the tandem become more twitchy? Will it actually become better at speed but just a little more sketchy at low speed??
Any ideas?