The issue is that people compare reach numbers of frames, saying that one has a longer reach than the other, without taking stack height into account. If one frame has a much lower stack height than the other, to get the same fit on both you would have to add headset spacers to increase the stack height to be the same. Because of the slack head angle, this effectively shortens reach, in some cases this means that the frame with the longer reach number on paper is actually shorter in reality.
March 12, 2018, 10:41 a.m. - Niels
The issue is that people compare reach numbers of frames, saying that one has a longer reach than the other, without taking stack height into account. If one frame has a much lower stack height than the other, to get the same fit on both you would have to add headset spacers to increase the stack height to be the same. Because of the slack head angle, this effectively shortens reach, in some cases this means that the frame with the longer reach number on paper is actually shorter in reality.