Please can someone help me on this:
I have an old Sub5. I spoke to Orange about fork lengths and they said max 120mm, and I have U-turn forks set at 120mm so all good. Except it all feels a bit unsettled and twitchy when braking hard (bit like a speed wobble) and generally light at the front but not to the point of struggling to keep the front wheel on the ground going up hill. It does feel more stable at 100mm, but would like to keep a bit more compensation up front. The stem is currently pretty long with a bit more rise than I would have liked and I have 670mm wide bars with a medium rise, and there are no spacers and I have a crank bros headset with 21mm stack height (and no more steerer left to increase any of that)
My understanding is that shortening the stem will make it more twitchy and using wider bars will not help either. Would flipping the stem thus dropping the front a bit help? Using flat bars? Or is it more to do with the head angle therefore I just need to keep dropping the suspension till it feels right. I have some lower rise bars on the way hopefully with a shorter and lower stem so will try that anyway, but just wondering if I am basically throwing money away?
Thanks