maxim wrote:
Rake and trail are 23/22.75 degrees and 87mm for the 21/28 respectively. It's the tiny trail which affects the turning the most.

Sorry to be pedantic Maxim, but the MC28 is 85mm... it is after all, the tiny differences!

If anything, the MC28 should be the "handler", but there's certainly nothing wrong with a well set up MC18 Mk2 or MC21. The MC21 only really needs the triples dropped down the forks 10~14mm (although +25mm of ride-height on the HRC shock really makes it superb), but the MC18R5/6K really needs that F3 linkage too.

The MC18 Mk1 by comparison is extremely lazy at 24°/90mm, plus an additional 15mm of wheelbase!

I run the shortest chain I can too (er... because I can't count for one reason! ) so my '21 really is "nose down, ass up, short as it can be"... just how I like my dancing girls!
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