Fixed by new fork: How to make a Landshark more stable/less squirmy?

[Pastashop]

Maybe I’m misreading the descriptions, but… That you find the bike both sluggish to turn and unstable could arise from a too shallow head angle, IME. Or a tight or indexed headset.

Barring headset issues…

Bikes with a shallow head angle and weight biased toward the front can handle weirdly uphill especially, IME, with a “flopping over” sensation. So, I think DK asked an important question, to which I hadn’t seen a reply (maybe I missed it?..)

Sometimes a rearward weight bias can help reduce the wheel flop sensation, IME, but with that long stem you may have something opposite going on. Maybe the previous owner had very long arms, long femurs, and short skinny torso compared to you?..

I’ve got bikes with head tube angles ranging from 70 to 74 degrees, and I’ve run different rake forks on them… steering “feel” - how much arms vs. hips I use to make the bike turn in, IME, is affected more by fork rake, whereas stability, especially riding no-hands, for me is more impacted by head angle.

I keep saying “IME”, so…. YMMV. The experienced frame builders here (again, DK) know more.

[unterhausen]

He said it rode okay uphill.

[alexihnen]

I’ve followed this thread with interest and read it through more than once. The only solution I can come up with is that the OP should ship the bike to me so that I may evaluate it on the road. After I’m finished, I can send it along to another Paceliner and so forth and so on until a solution is reached.


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[coffeecherrypie]

Sorry if it’s been asked before and I missed it....has anyone else taken the bike out for a ride and do they also feel something is wrong with the handling? If I read your original post right, it’s only on high speed descents that the problem manifests so this wouldn’t be a simple around the block exercise.

[proletariandan]

Thanks to everyone for their input and advice and to @prototoast for a deal on an Enve fork that is making the bike ride much better.

My guess is that the Reynolds has some sort of damage that has led to it riding worse and worse over time. If it was just the geometry or the way the fork rides it seems like something I would have gotten used to rather than the opposite.

Strange but hey, if it works, I'm done asking questions!

[cnighbor1]

Alignment of the frame is needed
I took a frame in Ed Litton to get rear triangle set to 130mm width.
Which Ed did plus he checked the alignment of the frame.
That I would say is what your frame needs
Charles

[charliedid]

Originally Posted by proletariandan

Thanks to everyone for their input and advice and to @prototoast for a deal on an Enve fork that is making the bike ride much better.

My guess is that the Reynolds has some sort of damage that has led to it riding worse and worse over time. If it was just the geometry or the way the fork rides it seems like something I would have gotten used to rather than the opposite.

Strange but hey, if it works, I'm done asking questions!

Glad to hear.