Evolution Of Road Bike Geometry

Sometimes on track bikes mostly on normal road frames.

Evolution of road bike geometry. Jumping right into the 1900 s the first road race bikes were designed. And i generally see the same setup on a fixie as a normal road bike. While much of the most radical change has been in the mountain bike world the road and touring scenes have also experienced some significant shifts. The evolution of the endurance road bike.

Right till the late 80 s where no real changes had been made to bikes they were still at the same design as the 60 s with very minor tweaks. Many of us rode fixed on the road in the 1970s. A touring bike s geometry is optimised so that it s stable carrying front and rear loads. We could write a doctoral thesis or two on the evolution of mountain bike geometry.

Road bike steering is tuned to be fast with its low trail geometry. This is evident through the slacker head angles and higher trail than both road and cyclocross bikes. The evolution of mountain bike geometry by jeff published april 22 2019 mountain bikes have changed drastically in the last 10 years. I think it s generally nuts to ride a full blown track sprint bike on the road but it s sort of nuts to ride one on a track anyway.

In the 1960 s usa came out with a road bike which was one of the first of its kind. Fixie doesn t equal track geometry. Road bikes in the 1900 s. It seems there s basically no aspect of the contemporary bike that hasn t undergone a radical design revolution.

Road bikes 50 60mm trail cx 55 65mm trail. And hours talking about how they ve changed in the last decade and adapted to different needs trends best done over a cold beer and in good company.