Mountain Bike Head Tube Angle Calculator. Head tube angle, as that will affect how close the handlebar comes with height adjustment. The headtube angle is the angle at which the head tube is to the ground.
Head Tube Angle Fork Rake (or Offset) Fork Trail. Bikes with a long head tube raise the front end of the bike, putting the rider in a more upright position. It's less important to have the correct value that the seat tube angle though, as the effect is much smaller.
Trail is the horizontal distance between your bike's steering axis and the center of the front tire's contact patch.
Although there are other parameters that go into what makes the front wheel behave, (fork offset, trail, etc) this is the key metric that the industry uses to determine front-wheel characteristics..
Cross country bikes have steeper head angles, whilst downhill bikes have slacker head angles. A bike with a steeper head angle has faster steering. Get the latest mountain bike reviews, news, race results, and much more by signing up for the MTBR Newsletter.