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Longer than 50 is possible - I've run a (shudders) 70mm, but it felt just dead racey and wrong. It felt like a "normal" bike, not a Ragley 🙂
Do not, please, try to size it to get the same reach from the saddle as your old bike - it probably won't work right.
50mm stems and slack head angles feel lovely.
i run a 70mm and it is ace.......but i am a freak and it suits me....
With 50mm I'm just worried about the front end wandering on climbs
james, did the bars land ok....
i rode mine for the first time last night, through the local woods, my previous bike was all over the place, blue pig neve wandered a bit.
Proper test tomorrow night, with muxh steepness
60mm on a Ti for me. Down from 70mm to begin with and it is miles better. Am debating a 50mm change now, should trust Brant by now, he seems to know what i want. You'll love the bike btw, best bike i've had in 12 years riding by a huge distance. Honestly, you'll be amazed.
Yes Ton thanks although strangely one end of them is covered in white paint..will clean up with a bit of turps though 🙂
With 50mm I'm just worried about the front end wandering on climbs
Front end weighting on climbs is mostly to do with seat angle and top tube length, not stem length.
james, it is silver off the btake levers. it must have scrapped when i took the levers off.
i only used them to ride home from work, 1 ride.
It's paint Ton - looks like the courier dropped the box in a tin of emulsion - it's still wet! Tis no problem though 🙂
was the box it was in wet too...the bastard, i will put a claim in for some new ones...
I have a 70mm, but thinking of swapping to a 50mm after using one on my Reign. How can 70mm feel long? Until a few months ago I had no stems shorter than 100mm!
Yeah Ton the outside of the box was wet, looks like the paint had soaked through to one end of the bars, don't worry about it though
do you run stems, I thought they were just fitted?
:(sorry about that james...new courier for me at work now....
No worries Ton
so does that mean if I liked the length of my 18" inbred with a 90mm stem, I'd need a large blue pig to be comfortable with the 50mm stem?
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50mm feels good for me. had a 70mm on my Reign and this feels similar
50mm on my Ti. Try it, it's what it was designed to have and it climbs just fine. If you don't like it you'll have no problem selling a 50mm stem!
60mm on mine, was all I had kicking about at the time. Planning to put a 50mm on it and get wider bars (currently 700mm wide).
Just wondering how short stems can get?
so does that mean if I liked the length of my 18" inbred with a 90mm stem, I'd need a large blue pig to be comfortable with the 50mm stem?
No.
Please see this point [url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/blue-pig-riders-what-length-stem-are-you-running#post-741171 ]here[/url]
Pig has steeper seat angle. If you really want to compare a length, compare the distance forward of the BB to the stem, but not from saddle to stem.
Just wondering how short stems can get?
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