I like the steepish seat angle on my long travel bike for winch and plummet and slacker on the HT for trail riding. Make bikes for the terrain they are used in, and everyone can be happy. Aggressive geometry short travel bikes are now a thing, but steeper long travel bikes seem like they would be a good fit for places like new england where it is rocks but no sustained elevation. I had my sentinel in boston for a bit and it was floppy and pedals strikes all over, I decided to fix the terrain by moving back to seattle but if I stayed a steeper and higher bike would have been in the cards.
Oct. 7, 2022, 10:50 a.m. - rc231
I like the steepish seat angle on my long travel bike for winch and plummet and slacker on the HT for trail riding. Make bikes for the terrain they are used in, and everyone can be happy. Aggressive geometry short travel bikes are now a thing, but steeper long travel bikes seem like they would be a good fit for places like new england where it is rocks but no sustained elevation. I had my sentinel in boston for a bit and it was floppy and pedals strikes all over, I decided to fix the terrain by moving back to seattle but if I stayed a steeper and higher bike would have been in the cards.