Anyone knows a 29er is commonly regarded as best with a short stem and wide bar, to quicken up and stablize the front endall bikes are different and what works on one may not work on others, and knows better than to make sweeping genralisations.
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142 Back end, probably the next standard.
Narrow flat bar, long stem, 100mm fork, long stays. Right then, its an xc race bike.
Nope. 142×12 axle, slack HA, dropper post, tapered steerer. Right… So…. Trail bike?
Maybe it’s a short travel trail bike and they ran out of wider bars. Dropper posts will increase the perceived value of the bike, everyone I hear about only buys bikes if the head angle is right an tapered steerer is becoming the norm, heaps of short travel Fox forks on taper going cheap cheap.
However in most cases the bike is specced by accountants.