I see a lot of bikes out there (including mine) which have adjustable chainstay length but whenever I see people talking about chainstay lengths they always seem to prefer very short chainstays.
I'm thinking there must be some advantage to longer chainstays, otherwise you wouldn't bother to have adjustable chainstays. Currently I have my dropouts in the shortest position and I've been thinking about extending them a bit to see how it affects my bike.
The only difference I can think of right now is that pulling the rear wheel back would weight the front end a little more and help the front end stick better in turns, along with making the bike harder to manual/pull the front end up.
Has anyone else played with this and can you give me any tips?
I'm thinking there must be some advantage to longer chainstays, otherwise you wouldn't bother to have adjustable chainstays. Currently I have my dropouts in the shortest position and I've been thinking about extending them a bit to see how it affects my bike.
The only difference I can think of right now is that pulling the rear wheel back would weight the front end a little more and help the front end stick better in turns, along with making the bike harder to manual/pull the front end up.
Has anyone else played with this and can you give me any tips?