Does anyone find that a longer stem makes things harder on the really difficult climbs? The sort of climbs that are both steep, so the front gets light, and rough, so you need to steer the one right line.
Fitted a longer stem to my rush last night, probably about 100mm, and it was nice and comfortable for general climbing, but seemed rubbish for the hard stuff. Front wheel going all over the place trying to hit the right line.
There's for and against imo...Fitting a longer stem should get the weight further over the front but at the same times makes the steering more twitchy.
Huh? A longer stem slows the handling down.
Having never used shorted than 100mm I can't really comment!
I generally find the opposite to the OP.
100mm is considered an overly long stem?
Whoa... I've been away from Earth too long! 🙂
does it not depend on the width of the bars also?
[i]Huh? A longer stem slows the handling down.[/i]
Yeah but I said twitchy, maybe my ubderstanding of twitchy is diffent 😕