Yes my rear tyre is the wrong way round. Wonder what difference it makes to a Ardent?
It’ll roll backwards, you’ll find yourself in reverse mostly until you reach the point where the angle of descent generates sufficient force to overcome the latent rear torque potential quotient of the tyre. Try turning the wheel around for a quick fix.
Also, did you ride it much before fitting the works components headset. Wondering how much difference 1 degree makes to the ride?
I haven’t ridden Hora’s ride/steed/rig, but I have a Works Components -1? headset fitted to my blithering ti singlespeed hardtail and I’d say that it makes a subtle but detectable difference. It’s a little hard to judge as when I singlespeeded it, I also changed a bunch of other things, notably dropping the front end as much as I could, but it’s taken a little nervousness out of the steering on steep descents (the geometry is early Marin Rocky Ridge) plus, though this is less clear, it’s also steepened the seatpost angle a little so it climbs slightly better – that said, flipping the stem and fitting ‘flat’ risers had a more noticeable impact.
I have another bike with -2? and that made a really big difference. One this you find with messing with the head angle is that it also changes a bunch of other things… so, BB height drops very slightly, seat angle steepens, though you can maybe compensate for this with saddle movement fore and aft and also maybe an inline/layback post, front end will be slightly lower with the same AC height to the fork, you may need a shorter stem to keep the steering from going barge-like and, because of the way the head-set works, the cockpit will also be slightly shorter as the steerer is angled back towards you – the more spacers below the stem are fitted, the more pronounced that’ll be, I guess.
That’s all far more noticeable if you take 2? off though. I went from a 90mm stem to a 50mm, I think, but that was too much even with the slackened head, going to stick a 70mm stem on, which I think will be about right.