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  • 'tight handling' what does this mean?
    people get obsessed with steep angles "for riding city streets" but in my opinion it's all armchair theory bullshit.
    here's my bit of armchair theory bullshit.
    the short stem fast handling thing is a fallacy unless it's for tricks. people use short stems and flat/riser bars because it looks cool and they think it's 'nippy' but it messes with the weight distribution and makes the bike twitchy because all the weight is on the hipster saddle and none of it on the bars which are too far back. theo bos uses a 130 stem on his track bike, boonen a 130. they do not have any problems nipping inbetween other riders or riding round paris roubaix -potholes at 25mph, their bikes are stable at speeds you will never achieve between ec1-ec3. the head angle is already 'fast' enough but their weight is perfectly distributed because enough weight is over the front wheel.

    buy a condor. at least you know you will get the correct size frame and whatever bits you want fitted to it.

    Lovely.

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