Changing head angle Vs highschool geometry?

jimmy23cricket
jimmy23cricket Posts: 59
edited February 2011 in MTB workshop & tech
Hi,

So it's common knowledge that if you lengthen the travel on your fork you effectively slacken your head angle. No issues.

What If you increase or decrease the angle of your stem then does this affect your head angle at all? So using 10 Deg stem on on a head angle of 67 deg , does that effectively reduce your angle to 57 or increase it to 77 degrees?

Or is there no affect whatsoever and there are more important things in life to think about!

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  • Koiler
    Koiler Posts: 513
    no.

    it will change the dimensions of the bike, and change your position on the bike, but it wont change the head angle
  • MountainMonster
    MountainMonster Posts: 7,423
    Exactly what is posted above me. Any changes made to other parts will not affect the head angle. Only changing the forks will change the head angle.
    My London Road
  • jimmy23cricket
    jimmy23cricket Posts: 59
    Good news!
    cheers for the replys.
  • bike-a-swan
    bike-a-swan Posts: 1,235
    MountainMonster wrote:
    Exactly what is posted above me. Any changes made to other parts will not affect the head angle. Only changing the forks will change the head angle.

    Changing the size of one wheel but not the other would! Or in a (only slightly) more sensible example, running a high profile tyre at one end and a low at the other. No idea by how much though! Rear suspension sag, too.
    Rock Lobster 853, Trek 1200 and a very old, tired and loved Apollo Javelin.

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