Fast Talk, ep. 57: Trail, rake, and flop bike design with Lennard Zinn
So, you think you know bicycles? Well, think again. Today we\u2019re sitting down with a legend of the cycling industry to talk about a variety of factors in frame design that most cyclists have never heard of. Yet these design elements \u2014 things like fork offset, trail, and head tube angle \u2014 have a bigger impact on a bike\u2019s performance and ride quality than frame material, or any of the things we focus on when checking out what our friends are riding.\n\nOur guest today is longtime VeloNews contributor Lennard Zinn. Author of the definitive books on bicycle maintenance, Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance and Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance, among other titles, Zinn has spent the past 37 years building custom bikes and studying the physics of bicycle design. Incidentally, it all started with his college thesis on building an un-rideable bike.