What is your favourite angle of dangle? Do you ever look at this as the headline figure to choose your bike, why? Do you run a 'slack' bike a frame size maybe a tad too small compared to the ideal jey-core fit?
Poor troll.
68 deg 130mm travel, just suits the way i ride.
no favourite number without a fork length to go with it, but i know how i like a bike to feel so that's all i'd look for, the chance that it's close to 'right'.
slack = confident. you can have too much of both and some need more than others.
"Do you ever look at this as the headline figure to choose your bike, why?" - i hope not as printed angles aren't much use in reality
69.078656799 does me.
45 degrees here
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ive been wanting to use this for a while and the timing feels right.
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Meaningless unless you know the offset or the trail figure.
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24.5 and guaranteed to be faster than the average STW'er
no idea what mine are
so no, I don't care 🙂
72° as I like toe overlap.
Mine's 71 on my do-it-all bike. Could do with being a bit slacker but it's fine now I'm riding with proper technique.
Rather depends on what I am riding. Hardtail is about 70 degrees through to 224 at 64 with a spectrum in between. Horses for courses.
Just to be different I think the seat angle makes more difference, & yes I enjoy a good fight 😉
Blimey what a dreadful troll.
You could ride round it even with a 65 degree head angle.
IIRC Solamanda is the one that's obsessed with head angles 🙄
slack = confident. you can have too much of both and some need more than others.
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On which axis are you measuring from?
22 Degrees from horizontal for me....
it's not the angle i care about as such,
i do care about the weight share between the front and rear wheel, and the amount of 'trail'. and etc.
all of these things are affected by head angle, so as a quick guide it's a useful number.
i'm not very good at riding bikes, i need all the help i can get, a steep and racey xc bike may climb like a goat, but will give me the willies if i point one downhill - in no small part because of all the weight the geometry places over the front wheel.
Never mind frame head-angle and fork length - what about tyre size, tyre pressure, amount of headset spacers, length and rise of stem, rise of bars..... these are all things that matter if you want to be successful and attract girls.
I don't care about any measurements, materials or components on bikes. I just trawl scrap yards searching for random lumps of tubing that I can sit on, drag it to the top of a hill, kick off with my feet and hope that gravity does the rest. On muddy days I tend to just sit there, stuck, but at least it gets me out of the house.
IIRC Solamanda is the one that's obsessed with head angles
Not really. I've noticed a pattern with riders using bikes a size too small wanting a slacker headangle. One might think they'd get the same feeling from the correct sized (longer) bike as that allows them to get the weight further back and achieve the same stability on steeper terrain.
Weight further back might not give you stability, it makes the front end light and wandery.
David are you talking about me? :-)The larger size frame is like a barge, TT is too long and I'm not actaully very tall, just have long legs and short body.
My pitch now has to do everything, so the ability to wind my forks out for a fairly slack head angle is great for DH. As a bonus it makes me very fashionable in conjuction with my a camelback!
David are you talking about me? 🙂
Not specifically but to be fair you're using your trail bike for uplift days!
Soon to be my only bike, bar the commuter.