why have a lot of cx bikes got tiny head tubes?

look shit with loads of spacers

arse-up head-down is quicker innit.

Long fork. But high BB?

I guess you are looking at small ones ridden by mountainbikers?

No doubt crazy legs will have a daft elitist answer…

Crazy legs?

User on here, does a lot of cross.

I don’t know, but the main thing I never liked about any of the 3 ‘cross bikes I had was how high the front end was, so I’d guess it’s related to that…

Yeah, I’m not sure I’ve riden a cross bike which I thought had a really low end, usually the oposite which Njee20 mentions. I find you need a certain amount of spacers for the cable to work properly with the brake.

Cable hanger.

Needs to fit under the stem for the cantis. So they have a shorter headtube to ‘compensate’.

Long forks, relative to road bike, similar position?

LOL none of up have a clue…

Because cross bikes are designed to race… But all of mine have been used for everything but racing.
Salsa vaya has good head tube if you are after a 700c off roader

Because you can raise bars with stems and spacers, but you can’t fit anti-spacers to shorten a headtube? I’d always sooner have short than long.

they are just very far away.

Long forks and dropped top tube, well mine anyway.

So Cynic-al

How can fork length not be an issue?

Did I say that? No. I said forks are longer, and bb’s higher – cancelling the former out.

Still…no one seems to know!

Surely BB hight isn’t a variable in head tube length. Well not since to tubes sloped….

can you enlighten us then?