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?