This little fella is all you need to tweak your bike’s handling. This customisation mainly happens in the downhill world, but more trail riders are looking for the same benefits too. The quicker we start going downhill, the slacker bikes become.īut what if your bike isn’t quite as you’d like it? Increasingly, we’re seeing riders looking for ways to tweak their bikes and bring the geometry into line with the longer, lower, slacker trends.
Better suspension, stiffer frames, grippier tyres and more powerful brakes mean that riders are tackling descents more quickly than ever before, and not just on downhill bikes. Now those figures are more commonly 69, 63 and 67.5 respectively.īut why? Simply put, riders are going faster. Not so long ago, the standard head angle for cross country bikes was a 71 degrees, downhill bikes sat at around 65 and trail bikes were at 69.5 degrees. Each season, head angles seem to tend a little more towards the horizontal. Not available for every bike and can cause frame/tyre contact on some bikes.īikes are getting slacker.
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