Originally Posted by
Ryder1
I agree. The buyer is responsible for remembering that fact, because the folks in advertising are telling us how Specialized has "slacked out the head tube angle" (yet the 56 and 58 have the same steep 72.5* HTA as 2017) and the bike is ready for "endless dirt skids and mid corner drifts." This bike (56) has the same HTA and fork offset as my 2010 Roubaix.
With a ht angle of 72.5° combined with a rake of 50 mm, it's significantly more slack than my road bike (AllezSprint) with a 73°/44mm combo