One objection/question we always get when doing a training seminar is the following: "changing the stem length will change the way the bike handles!" At our last training Paul demonstrated this by taking a bike by the saddle and walking around the conference room. There was no rider on it and no weight; Paul successfully walked the bike around the room. Would having a longer or shorter stem change the way the bike would have otherwise handled?
The rider on the bike and their position may change how they may handle the bike! If the rider cannot comfortably reach the hoods and the road is full of twisties you can be assured that the rider will not have good control/handling of the bike vs. a rider that comfortably reaches the hoods and is properly fitted to the bike. There have been some discussions on weight distribution on the bike and how that affects the handling but almost without exception we have not found any evidence that this changes the handling characteristics of a bike.
What ultimately changes the the handling of a bike? One place you might look is at your fork and it's rake for the answer to that ...
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