My thoughts exactly - one of those 'reviewers curse' type things where you ride something with >100% AS it feels like magic on certain trails, but you find yourself staring back confused at the rear tire when losing traction on a very familiar section of trail that is only slightly challenging or traction-sensitive. It's worse on shorter chainstay bikes I've found as well, but that might just be a sampling size error from stuff I've gotten to test ride.
It is very much as psychological as it is physics (or more so)... Pinkbike's climbing tests seem so show that as well - these are single digit percentage differences at most from best to worst on flat singletrack, and having traction limitations anywhere in between are going to close or reverse those gaps entirely
June 3, 2022, 10:24 a.m. - Tehllama42
My thoughts exactly - one of those 'reviewers curse' type things where you ride something with >100% AS it feels like magic on certain trails, but you find yourself staring back confused at the rear tire when losing traction on a very familiar section of trail that is only slightly challenging or traction-sensitive. It's worse on shorter chainstay bikes I've found as well, but that might just be a sampling size error from stuff I've gotten to test ride. It is very much as psychological as it is physics (or more so)... Pinkbike's climbing tests seem so show that as well - these are single digit percentage differences at most from best to worst on flat singletrack, and having traction limitations anywhere in between are going to close or reverse those gaps entirely