Re: Cool thing I did today

On 3/23/2025 3:15 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 3/22/2025 11:40 PM, zen cycle wrote:

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People that don't have good innate balance will have a difficult time riding rollers. I'm one of those people. It took me several months to keep the bike up, and I that was after setting them up in a door frame so I had something to lean on and pull the bike back. I can ride unloaded rollers somewhat effortlessly now (40 years later) but still can't ride no-handed, can't sprint, and have a really hard time trying to ride the TT bike while in the aerobars.

 I don't know, but I wonder if very tiny adjustments to the roller wheelbase might make a difference. I always adjusted ours to put the front roller exactly under the bike's front axle. Does anybody know if having it a few millimeters forward or backward have any benefit?
 

Since we describe geometry, especially trail, using the normal front wheel contact directly under hub axle, that will necessarily change handling (+/- trail and +/- axle height as well).
No harm in experimenting I suppose.
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