![]() ![]() It was something along the lines that the more offset you had the less stem length you needed as you don't want too much leverage with too little trail. I even emailed Aaron Bland (outsider bikes) about it, but in the end the idea faded and quit making sense. In my delirious dehydrated ran ragged day dreaming desert mind I tried to create a link between offset and "stem length" I though i had come up with something solid. It was mentally tiring and confidence sapping. Longer stems make the bars swing in a wider arc, and with the pull of the motorcycle, it was constantly taking steering inputs when none were meant to be given. Moving back to the longer "stem" length was horrifying on the day I rode it like that. In the mean time i went from 22mm offset to 23.5mm offset and was really digging it, could push the front end vus tucking at 20, and a little tuckey at 22mmÄecided to give the longer "stem lenght" a try to spread my feet and hands apart further to provede some more support to my hands which have to deal with a 50hp barky 450 yanking them for hours on end not to mention the pumbling they take from plowing rock gardens full of baby head and cinder block shaped rocks. Then i ended up with it only 1 click forward of centered think going form a 45mm stem to a 35. I also have a top clamp that provieds 8 mounting positions. Thats all it takes is 2mm to totally change the front end feedback. This little gizmo let me dial the offset trail or track side on the 450 More offset is like steepening the bike, except it unloads the front wheel instead of loading it. More offset creates less trail, while lengthening the front centerÄ®ssentially Less offset is like slackening the bike, except it loads the front wheel instead of unloading it. Less offset creates more trail, while shortening the front center Steeper head angles create less trail, while shortening the front center Slacker head angles create more trail, while lengthening the front center I would say it has nothing to do with strength and everything to do with feedback. What your mechanic said makes me wonder If he has actually tested various offsets on a bike. More trail/less offset is more "stable" it has more castor or self centering Offset and trail have an inverse relationship when head angle is held constant The offset is meaningless without head angle, and the result of head angle and offset is trail. ![]() I wanted there to be a correlation, but there isn't. ![]()
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