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Re: How bike geometry affects ride performance
      12/20/06 01:07 AM (67.169.228.138)

I recently went back to Craig Calfee's site and found that he indeed put a paper on bike geometry and handling on his site.

http://www.calfeedesign.com/frontendterms.htm

Take a read for it is exactly what I was thinking about when I made the original post in this thread. I also read similar on other bike manufacturer sites that I can't recall offhand. It's this kind of information that I think a lot of cyclists don't understand and when they test-ride a bike, they have no idea what makes one bike feel different than another, as far as handling characteristics are concerned, and end up thinking it's a quality difference in the frame.

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* How bike geometry affects ride performance Insightdriver 06/12/06 11:51 PM
. * Guest opinions from framebuilders BlueJays   10/03/07 12:48 PM
. * Re: How bike geometry affects ride performance Insightdriver   12/20/06 01:07 AM
. * Re: How bike geometry affects ride performance Dave_Thompson   06/13/06 12:22 AM
. * Re: How bike geometry affects ride performance Insightdriver   06/13/06 03:57 PM
. * Re: How bike geometry affects ride performance rock   12/23/06 07:44 AM
. * Re: How bike geometry affects ride performance Insightdriver   12/24/06 06:21 AM
. * Re: How bike geometry affects ride performance rock   12/29/06 03:53 AM
. * Re: How bike geometry affects ride performance Insightdriver   12/29/06 04:26 AM
. * Re: How bike geometry affects ride performance Dave_Thompson   12/24/06 07:50 PM
. * Re: How bike geometry affects ride performance rock   12/29/06 04:09 AM
. * Re: How bike geometry affects ride performance Dave_Thompson   12/29/06 05:57 AM
. * Re: How bike geometry affects ride performance rock   01/20/07 04:55 AM
. * Re: How bike geometry affects ride performance Insightdriver   01/21/07 03:01 AM
. * Re: How bike geometry affects ride performance rock   01/22/07 07:20 AM
. * Re: How bike geometry affects ride performance Dave_Thompson   01/20/07 07:17 AM
. * Re: How bike geometry affects ride performance Dave_Thompson   06/13/06 07:16 PM
. * Re: How bike geometry affects ride performance Insightdriver   06/13/06 08:43 PM

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